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EPISODE · Apr 16, 2011 · 26 MIN

Border enforcement, land management bill redefines borders 100 miles inland from coasts

from Waking Up Orwell · host Sheila Dean

BTC - A new house bill sponsored by Rep. Bishop (R-UT) would allow a DHS policy waiver of 36 federal laws to construct US border fences to become law.  The National Security and Federal Lands Protection bill would change border definitions, expanding the reach of federal border enforcement 100 miles inland from coast to coast.   From the bill: (c) CLARIFICATION RELATING TO WAIVER AUTHORITY.—(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other  provision of law (including any termination date re-lating to the waiver referred to in this subsection),the waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Securityon April 1, 2008, under section 102(c)(1) of the Ille-gal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsi-bility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note; Public Law104–208) of the laws described in paragraph (2)with respect to certain sections of the internationalborder between the United States and Mexico andbetween the United States and Canada shall be con-sidered to apply to all sections of the internationalland and maritime borders of the United Stateswithin 100 miles of the international land and mari-time borders of the United States for the activitiesof the Secretary of Homeland Security described insubsection (b), including the construction of infra-structure, to achieve the operational control de-scribed in subsection (a).      We discuss events at the bill’s Introduction hearing and the US border with Scott Nicol with No Border Wall Fence Coalition. WWW.NO-BORDER-WALL.COM WWW.NOTEXASBORDERWALL.BLOGSPOT.COM WWW.BORDERWALLINTHENEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM WWW.NOBORDERWALL-TAKE-ACTION.BLOGSPOT.COM   Music by Nortec's Fussible....

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