Can you believe that Obama's Interior Department is charging "extortion" money from the Border Patrol — all because of the ridiculous and so-called "environmental damage" stemming from their everyday duties along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Did you know that the Border Patrol has to follow a bunch of asinine rules when driving – like which paths they can use and not use? Yeah, that works really well in a pursuit situation.
Is this logical? Does it make sense?
Though both the departments of Homeland Security and Interior say the money goes toward preserving and restoring sensitive habitats, Republicans say the arrangement does not make sense.
The Border Patrol needs that money to address the weighty task of securing the border. I mean, do the illegals and smugglers take care not to trample that little cactus over there? Do they tip-toe through the desert? The Border agents are actually preserving the environment by keeping them out!!
Environmentalists say the harm to the environment from border security efforts, particularly the massive border fence, is great. Defenders of Wildlife, an organization that has focused on the issue, argues that fence construction along the U.S.-Mexico border is cutting off animal migration routes, disturbing natural habitats and worsening flooding.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club fought the Bush administration several years ago over its decision to waive certain environmental restrictions to ease construction of the border fence.
These idiots must be stopped. They are out of control and irrational loons. They have taken away livelihoods of 30,000 – 40,000 people in California's San Joquin Valley by creating a permanent drought, and all because of a little fish.
Unemployment rates are now 40% because of the water being shut off to farmers. Yes, they shut off the water! People cannot live without water. Isn't that against some law?
Hundreds of acres of crops are now dead. One million acres of fields and orchards also have no above ground water supply. People have to go to food banks for food. Fruits and vegetable prices have skyrocketed in central California. This area is was among one of the richest in the country.
At some point, one must decide which is more important – human lives and way of life or a tiny fish — whose disappearance, BTW, would not crash the eco-system.
Not that any of it helped…
According to a December impact study, "mitigation money" for the towers along a 30-mile stretch of U.S. border was to be spent on a bunch of useless environmental projects. They include:
– $200,000 to study the extent of unauthorized vehicle routes in the habitat of Sonoran pronghorn, which are endangered.
– $1.75 million to close and restore those vehicle routes.
– $20,000 to move pronghorn back to the Valley of the Ajo if they don't migrate by themselves in three years.
– $14,000 to do weekly aerial surveys of the pronghorn during the 2010 fawning season.
– $35,000 for monitoring the maternity roosts of lesser long-nosed bats.
– $140,000 to study "unknown roosts" for lesser long-nosed bats.
What moron thought this up?
Matt Clark, southwest representative for Defenders of Wildlife, described those examples as "well-thought-out mitigation measures." He said the towers might not look harmful to the environment, but that the generators attached to them and the vehicle traffic necessary to maintain them make a dent.
If anything, he said Border Patrol should be putting up more money to pay for damage.
Oh, that moron…
And if they are so concerned with bats and such, why are they pushing useless wind farms that chop up birds and bats alike? Yeah, they do.
For Pete's sake! Where the hell has reason and rational thought gone?
Get rid of these parasites by voting out everyone who supports them and their moronic rules. The bottom line is that they care nothing for human beings despite their pretense.
Off with their heads!
