Build the fence and shut up O.K.

My problem with this article is the fact that not one person in it even thinks about the people who's Constitutional Right's are being violated by their opposition to A border fence that will help keep Illegal immigrants from crossing into this country out , I have rights to!!!
And I am opposed to the opposition of the Border Fence !
I have a right to a safe country !
I have the right to demand action be taken to stop the flood of illegal immigration!

El paso times AUSTIN -- El Paso County will ask the nation's highest court to rule in a case officials hope will halt construction of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, County Attorney Jose Rodriguez said Tuesday.

"This is an unconstitutional delegation of authority," Rodriguez said, referring to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's use of waivers to circumvent more than 30 laws that could slow construction of the 670-mile fence.

The county, along with the city, the Tigua tribe, the local water irrigation district and environmental groups filed the lawsuit in June. The suit alleges that Chertoff's use of waivers to complete the fence by the end of this year was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo dismissed the lawsuit earlier this month, ruling that Chertoff did not violate the Constitution "because 'Congress constitutionally delegated its authority in the Waiver Legislation.' "

Rodriguez said the next legal step to continue the fight was to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

"We definitely are proceeding with the appeal," he said.

The lawsuit might not stop the fence building, but El Paso County Commissioner Veronica Escobar said the case makes an important statement.

What these people fail to understand is the fact that an overwhelming amount of people in the U.S, want a fence ON THE BORDER , to help stop the flood of illegal immigrants, who overburden the legal taxpayers of this country !!! If they insist on their way then I insist that they cover the cost of all expenses incurred By illegal immigrants in their area !!!! I DO NOT WANT MY TAXES GOING TO COVER THESE COSTS !

"If government can find a reason to waive our constitutional rights on this

occasion, then it certainly opens the door for them to do that again," Escobar said.

Mayor John Cook said the City Council has not yet voted to continue pursuing the case, but he expected that it would.

Even if fence construction is not stopped, he said, the lawsuit would help the city understand which federal laws apply on the border.

"The point is we don't know which laws we can enforce," Cook said.

Tigua Lt. Gov. Carlos Hisa said the fencing project would impede the tribe's access to water in the Rio Grande that the Tiguas have used for centuries to farm and conduct ceremonies.

"We just want our concerns to be heard and to be taken into consideration before the fence goes up," Hisa said. "We've basically been asked to shut up."

El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 joined the lawsuit because the fence would impede its access to maintain eight miles of canals that provide irrigation water to about 20,000 acres of farmland in the Lower Valley, said executive director Jesus "Chuy" Reyes.

"We need to do everything we have to do to protect the water users," he said.

Department of Homeland Security officials did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story.

The El Paso County lawsuit is similar to one filed by the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife over Chert off's use of waivers to build fencing in Arizona.

The Supreme Court declined earlier this year to hear that case.

Oliver Bernstein, Sierra Club spokesman, said the El Paso lawsuit might have a better chance because the timing and circumstances are different.

Fence-building expenses have grown higher than the DHS expected. The Bush administration is drawing to a close. The federal government is considering spending nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer money to buy bad loans that have put the nation in a financial crisis.

"More opposition and more attention to this project is going to help slow it down," Bernstein said, "so that hopefully a more rational administration can look for other ways to balance border security and the environment and human rights."

So in other words "waste more taxpayers money anyway, cry and whine because you are trying to farm a fucking desolate wasteland called a DESERT, and say it should not be done because "GEORGE BUSH " is spending money elsewhere!" Give me a break ,these hippies need to get out in the real world and see what it is really like ! I have lived on both coasts and as far north and as far south as can be , the world does not revolve around El Paso , even with a fence life will go on !!! Hopefully with a few less illegal's .