OH NOES!!
Posted on 01/22/2018 6:24:58 PM PST by markomalley
The Trump administration is waiving more than 30 environmental rules to accelerate the construction of President Trump's proposed border wall in New Mexico, forcing environmental groups to consider another round of lawsuits.
The Department of Homeland Security published a notice Monday that said the waiver was necessary to ensure the "expeditious construction of barriers" near the Santa Teresa Land Port of Entry.
"The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international land border of the United States," according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
The waiver included rules and requirements under several top federal environmental rules, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Air Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Noise Control Act.
The waiver would allow the administration to begin replacing vehicle barriers with bollard walls along a 20-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border west of El Paso, Texas, at the New Mexico land border port.
"The United States Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector is an area of high illegal entry," according to the Department of Homeland Security's notice, stating the need for the waiver. "The El Paso Sector therefore remains an area of high illegal entry for which there is an immediate need to construct border barriers and roads."
The Center for Biological Diversity, the first group to sue the Trump administration over the wall last year, said Monday that it is considering a new lawsuit to address this latest waiver.
“The Trump administration is stopping at nothing to ram through this destructive border wall,” said Brian Segee, a senior attorney for the group. “Trump’s divisive border wall is a humanitarian and environmental disaster, and it won’t do anything to stop illegal drug or human smuggling.”
The environmental group sued the administration last year for a previous waiver of conservation rules to build a portion on the wall near San Diego. A hearing on the case in the federal district court of San Diego occurs next month on Feb. 9. The group argued that the wall violates the endangered species law by cutting off species' migratory patterns and ignoring protected habitat.
"Beyond jeopardizing wildlife, endangered species and public lands, the U.S.-Mexico border wall is part of a larger strategy of ongoing border militarization that damages human rights, civil liberties, native lands, local businesses and international relations," the group said.
The Center for Biological Diversity, one of the most Anti-American, Leftist, Communistic. organizations out there. They closed down a very popular remote dirt road in my area due to "riparian" worries, i.e.: waterfowl concerns, that only has water crossing it a few days a year.
Nonsense. Trump doesn't care. He knows if he builds the wall, and NOTHING else, his greatness is forever secured in history.
OH NOES!!
Are you nuts? Did you even see what happened today? Evidently not.
We are going to have a Wall, and no DACA. Just watch.
“McConnell traded the reopening of the government for a separate Daca vote.”
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First off, the story here is about the building of Trump’s border wall - not DACA. Two separate things.
Second, even if DACA were brought up - something not required by any law, such “agreements” are often just ignored - it would need to something that Trump would have to approve of and sign.
In other words, you can back off from the ledge, all is “not lost.”
Patience - it takes a bit to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
“”””Well IMO it is the cheap labor for big donors. It is sickening. I want employers to go to prison if they do not certify citizenship on E verify. PRISON!!”””””””””””””
I hate to pop your bubble but the truth is that identity theft among hispanics is ginormous. Getting the proper papers to pretend to be a citizen is easy for them.
I have it on good authority that they are planning a door with a big sign that says "Free Tacos" and a tunnel that leads you to a cantina in Tijuana.
More environmental conditions are threatened by the Hi Speed rail system being proposed in California, which has been shoved down everybodies throats by the liberal greedy democrats in CA.
No, it tells me that people on FR screaming every minute of every damn day that "TRUMP CAVED ON THE WALL" are delusional.
Tiresome idiocy.
Wrong.
The illegal can steal an identity and create “papers”, sure, but once the rightful identity owner complains, with e-Verify there is a solid electronic trail right back to the criminal, where he / she works, etc. Maybe not ALL offenders can be easily spotted, and some may move before being caught, but with quick enforcement, but most can.
For that matter, to the degree which it is deemed not too egregious an invasion of privacy, the databases can be cross-checked and analyzed by powerful programs for anomalies. As a simplified example:
The program says to itself, hmm... we have in Yuma, AZ, a John J. Smith, SS # 123-45-6789, working at MacDonalds. We also have in Berkeley, MO, a John J. Smith, SS # 123-45-6789, working at McDonnell Douglas. Perhaps this deserves a closer look.
Some of this is already possible for SSA to do, though I’m not sure how “empowered” they are to do it. A Trump-powered ICE should be able to kick butt.
Welcome to 2018. :-)
He was probably pretty close to the truth there.
Thanks for the mention.
B.
Ridiculous. It’s clear that Trump is doing everything he can get the wall up. They are using phony judges to prevent him. Get Congress to help him pack the 9th
Let me fill you in. If i have your social security number right now, i can tell who you are, where you have lived the last 20 years. I can find your cars.i can find your criminal convictions. I will know your spouces name and i gave a 65% chance of having your picture. Dont tell me that crap. There is no way to hire these illegal bastards without total knowlege they are lying.
Well maybe one in Rosarito...
K-55 area,...............
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