U.S. eases environment laws for Mexico border wall near San Diego

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Reuters

AUGUST 1, 2017 / 9:43 AM / 35 MINUTES AGO

Susan Heavey


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it would waive environmental and related laws in order to expedite building security-related barriers and roads along the nation's border with Mexico near San Diego.

The projects would focus on about 15 miles (24 km) of the frontier extending eastward from the Pacific Ocean as part of President Donald Trump's planned wall between the United States and Mexico, the DHS said in a statement. It said the area is one of the busiest U.S. border sections.

"The sector remains an area of high illegal entry for which there is an immediate need to improve current infrastructure and construct additional border barriers and roads," the DHS said.

Environmental impact studies generally are required under federal law for building on public lands but in this case the waiver will eliminate a study.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-sandiego-idUSKBN1AH49T

[riversedge]

1. nytimes: Homeland Security to Bypass Environmental Laws in Border Wall Work

I was just getting ready to post this, so will add to your. We have a lawless trump adm. damn




Homeland Security to Bypass Environmental Laws in Border Wall Work


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/homeland-security-to-bypass-environmental-laws-in-border-wall-work.html

A metal fence between the United States and Mexico, seen from Puerto Palomas, Mexico, in February. President Trump’s plan to build a border wall has been part of a contentious budget fight in Congress.
Yuri Cortez / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


By RON NIXON
August 1, 2017

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday said that it would use its authority to exempt the agency from having to comply with environmental and other laws in its efforts to build border walls and access roads in the San Diego area.

The waiver would apply to the construction of several wall prototypes the agency plans to build in the region in response to an executive order signed by President Trump in January.

Congress has passed several laws that give Homeland Security the authority to exempt its construction of physical barriers like border walls from a variety of environmental and land management laws. Homeland Security invoked that authority five times from 2005 to 2008, the agency said. Most of the construction of the border walls currently in use was done during that period.

David Lapan, a spokesman for the department, said the waiver would also apply to replacement fencing and roads the agency plans to build in the San Diego area.
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In the absence of congressional funding, Homeland Security has moved $20 million from other programs to pay for the construction of several border wall prototypes like the ones planned for this summer in the San Diego area..

Link to tweet

[Judi Lynn]

3. Thanks for the information, riversedge. n/t

[wasupaloopa]

2. It looks like a war zone there aleady. There are huge fences with DMZ like piece of land

between them. It is ugly. Reminds me of those movies of the future were everyone runs around in rat rods in a devastated land.

I cross with my brother who owns a house in Rosarito.

[Sunlei]

4. several wall prototypesfake walls squande(R)ng another 70 million++ of Americans Federal funds.

[mpcamb]

5. I'm not versed in legal matters. Can this be challenged in court?

Can it be halted or stalled?
If so Dems and environmentals should be all over it.

[IronLionZion]

6. your link is about wild fire

try this one:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-sandiego-idUKKBN1AH49T

[Judi Lynn]

7. Absolutely! I had no idea it was gone until now.

I'm changing that link.

Thank you for getting the message out!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. But of course

You don't expect the Trumpers to follow the law do you?