Imagine! Having a new slave class and millions in that new victim constituency group, and an end to this nation’s sovereignty all in one swoop. Can’t beat that. And as Tammy Researcher and Level 2 Troublemaker Pat S. notes, “How well will the Bush DOJ defend against this challenge I wonder.”
A National Guardsman surveying the mountain of trash left behind by illegal aliens at the border.
Democrats Challenge Plans to Finish Border Fence
Fourteen House Democrats, including eight committee chairmen, said yesterday that they will file a legal brief supporting a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s plans to finish building 470 miles of fencing and other barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border by the end of the year.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) led the group, which includes the heads of the energy and commerce, transportation, intelligence, education, rules and veteran affairs panels.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club asked the Supreme Court last month to review whether the administration’s decision to waive environmental laws to finish the fence is constitutional. That waiver was approved by the Republican-led Congress in 2005.
“Our responsibility to be stewards of the earth cannot be thrown aside for the sake of an ill-conceived border fence,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.).
Stewards of the earth, huh? Then maybe Bennie and Johnny can get everyone together and go pick up all the human waste, the food wrappers, and other disgusting trash left behind by illegal aliens as they trudge through polluting and destroying the previously pristine desert.
If they need, uh, doggy bags for the more unpleasant cleanups, they can have some of Sydney’s.
Take my walkie baggies, please.
The claim that the fence is detrimental to the environment is inane. The abusive traffic, as illustrated by the photo, makes it clear that building a fence would be much kinder to the environment than having no fence. One would hope that these self-proclaimed defenders of the environment would acknowledge this obvious fact and support a fence instead of abandoning the land in favor of a damaging political agenda.
Are the Defenders of the Earth and the above mentioned politicians going to the trash site to see what those poor illegals left behind for us heartless Americans to clean up?
You people, how bourgeois and unsophisticated can you get calling this trash? It’s art! The Heart’s Path: Border Art and Artifacts From the Migrant Trail. Which reminds me, I better hurry to put some artifacts at the curb before the art truck gets here. But then, I’m not an “entrant”, “crosser”, “migrant”, just a heartless American so my stuff is the shameful waste of materialism not poignant remnants of my life.
Oops, that link might require registration. It has some interesting pictures of the exhibit but here’s another source or here.
They’re concerned about the environment?! How about the ecological damage caused by millions of humans trampling back and forth through the desert each year? Imagine the rare desert blooms, cacti, and lizard species imperiled not only by trash, fires, and the impact of feet, but the tons of toxic human urine and excrement that are certain to upset fragile ecosystems. How many exotic life forms are killed purposely or inadvertently by the millions of humans parading through the desert? How many animal migration patterns and delicate habitats are upset by the presence of humans?
And once here, illegal migrants contribute to the overpopulation of America with all the environmental devastation that comes with it. Excellent free healthcare and welfare programs encourage migrants to have lots of children they can’t afford. This means more people consuming dwindling natural resources which in turn causes pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and global warming. The millions upon millions of new illegal migrants each year also adds to the urban sprawl that is blighting America’s landscape.
I don’t like the impact a fence has on animal populations, but how about this: aggressively and CONSTRUCTIVELY working to end illegal immigration from every angle and once it is quickly resolved, remove the fence. Attack the problem, not the solution.
Unfortunately many supposed environmental groups have socialist political agendas first and foremost.
I think that is the single thing about this whole border mess that infuriates me the most; to see how “environmentalists” have completely sold out their stewardly values in the defense of leftism.
The Sierra Club is a case in point. Overpopulation – one of the fundamental concerns of the early environmental movement – is now no longer an issue to these people. The Sierra Club sticks to its tired “footprint” scenarios and completely denies any correlation between immigration, high birth rates, and resource depletion. Their view is that as long as we natives would just live in caves and not drive anywhere we could import tens of millions of people and still survive (one would hardly call it “living”).
Groups like the Sierra Club whine about the environmental impact of a fence, yet are totally silent on the environmental damage caused by migrants in places like Organ Pipe NM (which is nearly 2/3 closed for public safety). These people have a lot of gall calling themselves “environmentalists.” They are “leftists” first and foremost. Any environmental act this group does must first pass through its multi-cultural social justice filter. Which is why they are totally irrelevant – at least on environmental issues.
Environmentalism’s fatal mistake is to predicate caring for the Earth with a concurrent commitment to leftism. There are of course conservative environmentalists – it’s just that they like to call themselves “naturalists” and “conservationists.” Much of the success in restoring wetlands around the country is thanks to hunters, who are some of the most ardent environmentalists you will ever meet. The idea that one must think a certain way politically to be an environmentalist will ultimately kill the environmental movement… and quite possibly all of us along with it.
Wow, John Conyers “stewards of the earth” quite a change of character for one of the feudal rulers of the third world trash heap that is Detroit. Maybe Rep. Conyers should clean up his own backyard. We have to get term limits.