Another excellent article explaining why this bill is needed and why greenies and socialists everywhere are against it:
Off Limits: Homeland Security & Green Groups Fight Over the Borderlands
by Cara Daniel, Green Watch, February 2012 (view as PDF here: GW0212)
Summary: The federal government has set aside hundreds of millions of acres of public land for ranching and forestry, national parks and wilderness areas, and it tasks various agencies to monitor and regulate land conservation and use. Because over 20 million acres of these federally-protected lands can be entered from across the U.S. border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is required to patrol often difficult and hard-to-reach terrain. The job performed by the U.S. Border Patrol is made even harder by restrictions that require border security projects to abide by a myriad of environmental protection laws. Recently a bill in Congress, H.R. 1505, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, was introduced to immunize DHS from many of these federal restrictions. Green groups are up in arms. They fear that DHS enforcement will hurt the environment and trample on individual rights. But many Americans living along the increasingly crime-ridden borderlands disagree.
https://www.capitalresearch.org/2012/02/gw-test/
DHS handling of TSA and callousness toward the average citizen, seniors and children. Their ever expanding presence to roads, bus stations, partnering with local law enforcement. Memos implying people that are conservative are a security risk..Growing and giving them more power is a concern.