Border wall work started this week in Az's Organ Pipe Cactus Nat'l Monument

Tucson Sentinel ^ | August 21, 2019 | Paul Ingram

[BeauBo]

Contractors began replacing border fencing along a two-mile stretch of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument this week, the first of three projects that will add 30-foot high "bollard" walls along three of Southern Arizona's wildlife refuges.

In photos shared with TucsonSentinel.com, construction vehicles and staged piles of steel beams were sitting along a recently bladed 60-foot-wide stretch of earth on the wildlife refuge near Lukeville, Ariz...

TucsonSentinel.com reported last week that construction was to begin Monday, despite headlines in other news outlets that the work had been "delayed."

The project is a further sign that Trump administration officials are pushing forward on a long-made promise to build a border wall, despite congressional refusal to appropriate the funds, and a lawsuit launched by three environmental groups, including the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Contractors will install new 30-foot tall "bollard" fencing along the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus monument, and each "bollard" will be a steel post six-inches wide, spaced approximately four-inches apart, and filled with concrete, he said. Along with the bollards, the fence will include a "linear ground detection" system, as well as lighting systems on towers up to 40 feet high.

[BeauBo]

These two miles that were just started, will be done in 45 days, while the designs are completed for the two big projects in Arizona (63 miles total). These are among the projects that were funded out of the Military Counter-Narcotics budget.

Then they plan to start the long runs in October - right on schedule.

It's the yuge 30 footers - the good stuff.

[PGR88]

What ever happened to the good old days when environmentalists could simply present the case of some unknown squirrel or bird to a judge, and have then declare null and void a major government policy?

/s

[Magnum44]

Love seeing the real news in your posts. BZ.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

August has been a fantastic month for America. (Well, aside from lunatics shooting up the place.) But otherwise, a LOT accomplished for ‘We The People.’

Promised Made. Promises Kept. Trump. 2020. Landslide. MAGA! KAG! :)

[VanShuyten]

Good. That will cut down on the garbage dumped there by illegals.

[BeauBo]

"What ever happened to the good old days when environmentalists could simply present the case of some unknown squirrel or bird to a judge, and have then declare null and void a major government policy?"

My favorite was the (mythical) Arctic Rat Lungworm...

But seriously, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club raised the cause of the widely beloved Quitobaquito pupfish to try to stop this project.

The bottom line is that very explicit, rock solid legal authorization was enacted under GW Bush (and under Clinton), that enable border barrier construction. They have to go way out on a limb to craft any kind of an argument in court.

As lawyers say, when the facts are with you, beat on the facts; when the facts are against you, beat on the law (find a technicality); when the facts and the law are against you, beat on the table (just browbeat with rhetoric).

All these lawsuits have been, has been beating on the table. Just attempts to harass, delay, and mislead the public.

[Yo-Yo]

[Yo-Yo]

All these lawsuits have been, has been beating on the table. Just attempts to harass, delay, and mislead the public.

Aided and abetted by judge-shopped far left wing jurists sympathetic to the cause and willing to slap on an instant injunction, then delay the actual trial for years, if not decades.

[BeauBo]

Heart warming.

Thanks for that.

[Ancesthntr]

I hope that they plant plenty of cactii on the other side of the fence - maybe 10 or 20 deep, so that anyone getting over the wall is facing a rather unpleasant next phase of their journey. Oh, and plenty of thorned blackberries in between them to fill in the gaps before the cactii mature.

[pas]

But it is not new fencing. It is replacing those little wooden ones in the background. /s

[CurlyDave]

It would be really nice if Organ Pipe became safe for American Citizens to hike in again.

There has been so much narco traffic that citizens are warned against going there.

But libs would rather give up our rights to foreign invaders than build the fence.

[Tommy Revolts]

Good. That will cut down on the garbage dumped there by illegals.

Yes, illegals crossing there are devastating the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument environment. You won't hear a peep about that.

[donozark]

The Prairie Fairies in Phoenix are screaming already! Love it! Full speed ahead!

[Zathras]

Make it Saguaro cactus which makes it a crime to disturb.