Culturally, Environmentally, and Politically a Bad Idea
Help Stop the Proposed Border Fence!
Culturally, Environmentally, and Politically a Bad Idea
!!! Save Border Field State Park Save the Tijuana River Estuary !!!
San Diego Audubon Society, Environmental Health Coalition, Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association, and San Diego BayKeeper URGE YOU TO ACT NOW TO STOP THE TRIPLE BORDER FENCE
The Problem: The INS (Immigration & Naturalization Service) has proposed and Congress has funded a Triple Border Fence that will devastate the sensitive environment of the Tijuana River Valley and will irreparably damage our relationship with our friends and neighbors in Mexico. Although several less environmentally and socially destructive alternatives were proposed to secure the border, the INS ignored them.
This nightmarish project will include a total of three parallel fences and a high-speed road developed in a 200-foot swath paralleling the border. The construction of a 200 ft. to 900 ft. wide pyramid berm will increase flooding hazards, threatening lives on the Mexican side of the border. The project will grade and fill numerous sensitive canyons causing a massive loss of habitat and species and increase siltation of the Tijuana River. As proposed, this fence will split Border Field State Park in half and destroy any hope of establishing a bi-national Peace and Friendship Park. This project must be stopped.
How You Can Help: Call or write your elected representatives IMMEDIATELY.
Senator Dianne Feinstein 619/231-9712 619/231-1108 senator@feinstein.senate.gov
Senator Barbara Boxer 619/239-2884 619/239-5719 senator@boxer.senate.gov
U.S. Rep Randy Cunningham 760/737-8438 760/737-9132 www.house.gov/cunningham
U.S. Rep Duncan Hunter 619/579-3001 619/579-2251 www.house.gov/hunter
U.S. Rep. Bob Filner 619/422-5963 619/422-7290 TalktoBobFilner@mail.house.gov
U.S. Rep. Susan Davis 619/291-1430 619/291-8956 ca49ima.pub@mail.house.gov
What Should You Say?
1. Tell them that you strongly oppose the proposed triple fence. (Thank U.S. Reps. Filner and Davis who have already written letters urging an alternative.)
2. Urge them to direct the INS to work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other governmental agencies to minimize the adverse impacts and issue a supplemental EIS (Environmental Impact Study).
3. Urge them to require INS evaluation of other less devastating and more effective alternatives.
Anything else? Yes, Call INS Chief William Veal, San Diego Section 619/216-4007 and tell him the same as above.
Several less damaging alternative projects securing the border and protecting the environment have been proposed. It is time we speak out against this unreasonable Triple Border Fence project and demand a sane alternative. ACT NOW!
San Diego Audubon Society - http://www.sandiegoaudubon.org/
Environmental Health Coalition - http://www.environmentalhealth.org/
Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association - http://www.ci.imperial-beach.ca.us/ibswia.htm
San Diego BayKeeper - http://www.sdbaykeeper.org/
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