What Are Environmental Habitats Good For? Bush says: Fences

In the spirit of the holiday season, the Bush administration is fast-tracking the divisive fence on the U.S.-Mexico border by overriding environmental review for the land used and altering the wildlife habitat to a devastating degree.

Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary, allowed the exemptions to complete the fence in a timelier manner.

The fences require 50 feet of land to be cleared during the process. Some wildlife activists claim the fence will alter the habitat for indigenous plants and animals that federal money has preserved for years.

The fast-tracking by Homeland Security appears to fall in the category of act first, and then the American people will have a harder time to re-trace the political steps to remove a fence many don’t care for in the first place.

The political ramifications will be detrimental to any administration that tries to remove the costly fence after it has been put into place; therefore, the current administration appears to win in the debate by not allowing other departments to participate and once again changing the rules to fit the plan.