Won’t the new US/Mexico border fence prevent animals from migrating and harm the ecosystem there?
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Perryman
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1) The Real ID act decreed; “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive all legal requirements such Secretary, in such Secretary’s sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.” "On September 22, 2005, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff used his new power to “waive in their entirety” the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act to extend triple fencing through the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve near San Diego ." Source and further information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States-Mexico_barrier 2) So it seems that ecological issues are totally ignored in this project, and this could lead to some harming of the ecosystem. But I do not think the very idea of such a fence to be good (for humans). In Mexico, it is inofficially called "The Wall of Shame"
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