Last month the Pew Hispanic Center reported that net migration from Mexico into the United States has dropped to zero, with roughly the same number of Mexican citizens heading south across the border as north.
Just a few days earlier the misnamed National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505) was introduced onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by Rob Bishop (R-Utah). It has since been stuffed into the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, and will probably be voted on today. Aimed at stopping the nonexistent flood of immigrants, this bill waives 36 laws on all federal lands within 100 miles of both the northern and southern U.S. borders for all Border Patrol activities.
If it is signed into law bases could be built, roads could be cut, and new border walls could tear through national parks from Glacier to Olympic on the northern border to Big Bend in Texas, as well as national forests, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas, with no concern for the environment.
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