Federal legislation pits environment against security...Plan to ease conservation laws for Border Patrol draws outcry

Federal legislation pits environment against security...Plan to ease conservation laws for Border Patrol draws outcry... Federal authorities can't secure sections of the U.S. border because of environmental laws that block access to public lands and slow efforts to stop drug smugglers and illegal aliens, say backers of legislation that would waive those laws along the border. But conservation groups say the congressional bills, two in the U.S. House and one in the Senate, create solutions for non-existent problems and are largely driven by opportunistic, anti-environmental lawmakers who want to weaken laws they always have opposed.

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