by Suzanne Gamboa: A federal judge temporarily delayed construction Wednesday of a 1.5-mile section of a U.S.-Mexico border fence in a wildlife conservation area on the Arizona-Mexico border. The Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club had requested a 10-day delay in a motion alleging the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies failed to conduct a thorough study of the fence's effects on the environment. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said she granted the delay because the federal government did not explain why it hurried through an environmental assessment and quickly began construction of the fence. . . . ''The reasons for urgency have not been sufficiently explained,'' Huvelle said. [Huvella doesn't understand the urgency; wonder where she stands on illegal alien issue?]President Bush signed a law last year ordering the Department of Homeland Security to build 700 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Construction is nearly finished along other parts of the Arizona-Mexico border, but the proposed fence is running into strong opposition in Texas. Opponents of the fence have said it will interfere with wildlife, disrupt commerce and disturb the bilateral way of life along the border. Supporters say it will curb illegal immigration and is needed for national security. . . . [Read More] ["Wildlife and the Bilateral way of life along the border" - code words for the local business of smuggling drugs, terrorists and illegal aliens.]
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