Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 5, 2007

Arizona Border Fence Environmental Impact Questioned

Americas Program Investigative Article

Arizona Border Fence Environmental Impact Questioned
Brenda Norrell October 2, 2007

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
americas.irc-online.org

With over a billion dollars in "border security funds" allocated by Congress, private companies are carrying out the biggest hoax of all—a $31.5 million dollar, seven-mile border fence at Sasabe, Arizona. The project has been whitewashed by a slim environmental assessment that obligingly finds "No Significant Impact."
Of all the self-serving U.S.-produced environmental assessments published in recent years, the slender pile of papers recently deposited in the Caviglia-Arivaca Library on the Arizona border has to be among the worst.

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