Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:34:14 AM
Well now this just tears it. Of course we can't secure the borders. It might upset the delicate ecosystem of the desert! Those dang scorpions and spiders and snakes and Joshua trees and cacti have rights too don't ya know!
From
BBC News:
Mexico has urged the US to alter its plans for expanded fences along their shared border, saying they would damage the environment and harm wildlife.
The fences threaten unique ecosystems, Mexican environment officials warned.
Cry me a river, the Rio Grande River to be precise.
"The eventual construction of this barrier would place at risk the various ecosystems that we share," Mexico's Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira told a news conference.
Those areas include Baja California, Sonora and Arizona, home to one of the world's most important desert ecosystems - the Sonora Desert.
How about this:
The report suggested ways of minimising environmental damage, including "green corridors" of wilderness without roads.
They would be green corridors all right, green with smuggled marijuana.
One glaring omission in this article. No thought about the hundreds of illegals who die ialong this corridor from exposure and dehydration while breaking the law.
Yet again, the last thought of an enviro-wacko is towards the humans involved in the issue.
Environmentalism may indeed be the last bastion of todays fools..