Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 15, 2010 1:11:27 PM
Here is a
story today in the LA Times about the border fence near San Diego and some opposition about its location. As usual, it's Bush's fault...
"
I think it's a Bush-era boondoggle that will have almost no consequence in terms of stemming the flow of immigration," said Char Miller, director of the environmental analysis program at Pomona College. "It was a political decision that took in no account of the environment itself, and in the process damages what was once a pretty remarkable landscape."
The $57.7-million project is one segment in the massive expansion of border infrastructure approved by Congress during George W. Bush's presidency. Homeland Security has erected fencing in small towns, remote valleys and high-desert mesas from the Pacific Ocean to Texas.
Here is what I say: BUILD IT BABY!