Green Border Security
By James Jay Carafano Posted in Immigration — Comments (0) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Environmental groups are up in arms about building what the Border Patrol calls “tactical infrastructure” to help stop illegal border entry. Well, there's an irony. Surveying some of the fences, cameras, roads, and lighting added in the San Diego sector illustrates that border security actually improves the environment. Heavy illegal border traffic does an enormous amount of environmental damage — trash, soil erosion, destruction of property. What the border patrol has found is that stopping the illegal traffic has allowed sensitive watershed and wildlife sanctuary areas a chance to recover. In addition, in the San Diego sector it has helped deal with a serious water pollution problem — run-off from industrial dumping and raw sewage draining from the other side of the border.
Border security is green.