News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Federal judge tosses suit seeking to stop part of AZ border fence

The Associated Press

Published: 12.20.2007

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acted legally when he waived environmental rules and cleared the way for a new border fence in a sensitive Arizona-Mexico border area, a federal judge has ruled.

The judge threw out the latest version of a suit that sought to block the construction of seven miles of fencing in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz.

The waiver Chertoff issued in October was legal because Congress specifically gave him the power to bypass environmental rules to secure the borders, U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle wrote in a ruling released Tuesday.

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