This issue is a ways from the California-Mexico border … but I thought some of you border-watchers might be interested.
Construction of a virtual fence in Arizona has been halted over land use policy. The Interior Department, charged with regulating and protecting the nation’s natural resources, has refused to sign off on the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed environmental assesssment. Homeland Security says the surveillance towers that would form the anchors of the virtual fence would cause no significant environmental impacts.
Other Homeland Security border-security projects have qualified for waivers exempting them from standard environmental assessments. But this project doesn’t qualify, according to the Associated Press.
