A Border Patrol truck runs the border between Tijuana, Mexico and Chula Vista, California. Congress gave Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff the power to waive delays for environmental impact studies and hearings in order to speed up building border barriers. Two of these waivers permit the DHS to ignore laws encompassing land covering the California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas borders.
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Border Wall, Spanish Land Grant Collide

A Border Patrol truck runs the border between Tijuana, Mexico and Chula Vista, California. Congress gave Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff the power to waive delays for environmental impact studies and hearings in order to speed up building border barriers. Two of these waivers permit the DHS to ignore laws encompassing land covering the California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas borders.

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