Read more border fence stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/17134/border-fence.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:44:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/61944/high-court-wont-hear-challenge-to-border-fence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the completion of the border fence between the US and Mexico, Fox News reports. Environmental groups, an Indian tribe, and the city of El Paso brought the challenge, contending that a fence will cut off access to the Rio Grande...http://www.newser.com/story/61944/high-court-wont-hear-challenge-to-border-fence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 14:47:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35761/border-fence-blamed-for-ariz-flooding.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEnvironmentalists say the US border-security fence is to blame for water backups in southwestern Arizona and Mexico, where steel-mesh panels meant to keep illegal immigrants out are getting clogged with flood debris, the AP reports. Critics are focusing their attacks on Homeland Defense Secretary Michael Chertoff, who waived environmental laws...http://www.newser.com/story/35761/border-fence-blamed-for-ariz-flooding.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 Aug 2008 15:51:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35044/work-begins-on-controversial-san-diego-border-fence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagConstruction crews have launched work on a controversial section of the US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, AP reports. The Smuggler's Gulch canyon will be filled with dirt and a fence built at a cost of $16 million a mile. Critics charge the fence is no longer vital and the...http://www.newser.com/story/35044/work-begins-on-controversial-san-diego-border-fence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 16 Aug 2008 4:58:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30719/supreme-court-will-hear-navy-sonar-appeal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court today agreed to hear the US Navy's objection to a court order that ships may not use sonar within 12 miles of the California coast because high-frequency signals are harming whales and other marine life, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Bush administration argues that the judge...http://www.newser.com/story/30719/supreme-court-will-hear-navy-sonar-appeal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Jun 2008 13:06:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23198/border-fence-will-skirt-environmental-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHomeland Security is ditching environmental laws in a push to finish 670 miles of border fence along Mexico by the end of this year, reports the Los Angeles Times . Congress has approved a waiver for more than 30 environmental and cultural laws to accelerate building. Critics say the plans are...http://www.newser.com/story/23198/border-fence-will-skirt-environmental-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Apr 2008 5:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20244/glitches-delay-virtual-border-fence-3-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPlans to build a high-tech "virtual fence" along the US-Mexico border have been set back at least 3 years after serious problems emerged in the pilot project, the Washington Post reports. The 28-mile fence south of Tuscon, which included unmanned surveillance towers equipped with radar linked to computers, didn't function...http://www.newser.com/story/20244/glitches-delay-virtual-border-fence-3-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 28 Feb 2008 8:12:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/19761/virtual-fence-cleared-for-arizona-border.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe government has just given the green light to a 28-mile “virtual fence” along the Arizona/Mexico border, the AP reports. The system, which uses cameras, radar, and other sensor devices to detect border jumpers, is already partially constructed, and working. Last week Border Patrol caught 38 would-be illegal immigrants thanks...http://www.newser.com/story/19761/virtual-fence-cleared-for-arizona-border.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 22 Feb 2008 12:14:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/19203/families-battle-feds-over-us-border-fence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmericans on the southern US border are fuming over a federal fence that threatens to cut their properties in two, the Washington Post reports. The feds have erected about 165 miles of fence in the West and southwest, but some families, protecting land they have held for generations, are turning...http://www.newser.com/story/19203/families-battle-feds-over-us-border-fence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 16 Feb 2008 19:30:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/14082/border-strife-escalating-in-tijuana.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAreas of Tijuana that abut the American border have turned into battlegrounds, as Mexican smugglers lob rocks from rooftops at US Border Patrol agents, who have begun retaliating by firing pepper spray and tear gas into densely populated neighborhoods, the Los Angeles Times reports. The tactics have caused evacuations and...http://www.newser.com/story/14082/border-strife-escalating-in-tijuana.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Dec 2007 16:18:23 CST