Posted on 07/15/2010 7:45:50 AM PDT by tobyhill
If not for an elusive, antelope-like creature in the Arizona desert, the Department of Homeland Security might have a much easier time cracking down on illegal immigration in hotbeds along the border.
The Sonoran Pronghorn, which roams in Arizona, is an endangered species on the verge of extinction. As a result, environmentalists and governmental stewards have been repeatedly blocking Customs and Border Protection from expanding border technology in their habitat -- despite complaints that illegal immigrants are taking advantage of the security gap and doing plenty of harm to the environment in the process.
Concerns about a host of species for decades have prompted standoffs between border and environmental officials. Border officers have limited access to federal lands in some of the most heavily trafficked areas because of the harm the patrols could do to the environment. But pronghorn preservation is popping up more and more as a barrier to Border Patrol and catching the attention of some on Capitol Hill.
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Probably a legal immigrant, yipping and dancing and waving a genuine green card. Definitely an endangered species.
Ping!
The Sonoran Pronghorn Antelope is not an antelope-like animal; it is an Antelope.
What a freaking moron that writer is...
Turbo-Goat is more accurate.
* Turbo-Goat is more accurate. *
LOL I gotta remember turbo-goat.
That is not my line. It is from P.J. O’Rourke’s Give War A Chance.
It came from his description of the ride home in a C-130 that the pilots were flying at tree tops level.
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