Immigration Law

Border Fence May Cause Demise Of Two Texas Nature Preserves

By Robert Kraft

I posted recently about the Bush administration getting a waiver to bypass environmental regulations so work could proceed on the Texas-Mexico border fence. The Dallas Morning News published an article yesterday about two wildlife preserves that may disappear if the border fence is built. Here are excerpts:

Two nature preserves almost certainly will close after the announcement last week that the federal government would waive environmental protection laws for a fence along the border.

"We'll have to close," said Anne Brown, executive director and vice president of Audubon Texas. "Basically, you've moved the border."

The Sabal Palm Audubon Center and most of the Nature Conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve would end up in the no-man's land between the fence and Mexico.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Tuesday that he would bypass more than 30 environmental laws and regulations to build the section of the fence, designed to stop illegal immigration and smuggling.

Full post as published by Immigration Law Answers Blog on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).