Rules Waived: Border Fence To Be Completed By Year’s End

"Criminal activity at the border does not stop for endless debate or protracted litigation," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement. "These waivers will enable important security projects to keep moving forward."

Whoever thought it would?

There was a clause in the original border fence law that allowed the President to order the fence and bypass all law suits, looks like Bush may have just read this clause. As of March 17, there were 309 miles of fencing in place, leaving about 361 to be completed by the end of 2008 to meet the Homeland Security department's goal. Of those remaining miles, 267 miles are now being held up by federal, state and local laws and regulations.

Common sense prevails? Trust but verify, we'll see won't we.

Chertoff has said the fence is good for the environment because immigrants degrade the land with trash and human waste when they sneak illegally into the country.

And sanity? Instead of turning the SOUTHERN border into a garbage dump, maybe the feds figured it was best to just build the fence. I wonder who will cart off the garbage already piled up there. How many animals had to die before the truth comes out? Where were the environmentalists on this? Oh yeah that's redundant it wouldn't further the aims of the Democrat party, so never mind, self explanatory.

Remember, this is the cheap single layer fence, not the dual wall fencing that was required. Not even half a loaf.



Best guess is it looks like this -- A section of the unfinished U.S.-Mexico border fence, near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego.

More here at USAToday.

UPDATE: The waivers have been issued Tuesday Apri 1, 3008

The Homeland Security Department used its legal authority Tuesday to waive environmental and land management laws so it can complete 670 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.

The waivers will allow the department to move ahead with miles of pedestrian- and vehicle-fence construction as well as roads and detection systems.

Homeland Security, under orders from Congress to build the fence, has run into intense opposition along the border from landowners, ranchers and environmentalists. Many didn't want their land taken or for wildlife and rare species to be disturbed.

Environmentalists and open border supporters, in other words, Democrats who need large quantities of ignorant voters to fill their depleted ranks of people standing in line for their government provided freebies, petitioned the Supreme Court to step in.

Two environmental advocacy organizations, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club, have filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the waiver provision. Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders of Wildlife's president, said yesterday's announcement bolsters his group's argument.