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	<title><![CDATA[Big Balls, Bigger Wall, Chertoff Lies, Wildlife Die]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-hurowitz/big-balls-bigger-wall-che_b_69683.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff <a href =
"http://www.dhs.gov/journal/leadership/2007/10/securing-border-while-protect
ing.html#links">announced</a> yesterday that he's going to just waive the
Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Waste Disposal Act, the National
Environmental Policy Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (among many
others) in order to plough ahead with building a wall along the
Arizona-Mexico border in the <a href =
"http://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/ncarea/sprnca.html">San
Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area</a>.
He repeated his rationale that the wall could be good for the environment
because migrants leave behind trash: <p>

<blockquote> But there are also environmental reasons to...</blockquote></p></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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