Endangered Animal Horning In on Arizona Border Security

[kpete]

Source: FOX

Endangered Animal Horning In on Arizona Border Security

By Judson Berger

Published July 14, 2010

| FoxNews.com

Shown here is a Border Patrol agent along the Arizona border in 2009, left, and a Sonoran Pronghorn. (Reuters/Fish and Wildlife)

If not for an elusive, antelope-like creature in the Arizona desert, the Department of Homeland Security might have a much easier time cracking down on illegal immigration in hotbeds along the border.

The Sonoran Pronghorn, which roams in Arizona, is an endangered species on the verge of extinction. As a result, environmentalists and governmental stewards have been repeatedly blocking Customs and Border Protection from expanding border technology in their habitat -- despite complaints that illegal immigrants are taking advantage of the security gap and doing plenty of harm to the environment in the process.

Concerns about a host of species for decades have prompted standoffs between border and environmental officials. Border officers have limited access to federal lands in some of the most heavily trafficked areas because of the harm the patrols could do to the environment. But pronghorn preservation is popping up more and more as a barrier to Border Patrol and catching the attention of some on Capitol Hill.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/14/endangered-animal-stalling-border-security-efforts-arizona/

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Just out of curiosity...

...if you blocked off the rest of the border area but leave the pronghorn's roaming territory open would that then channel border-crossers into the pronghorn's territory thus upsetting their habitat?

[Kali]

12. that pretty much IS what happened

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. self-delete

@#$%&* double posts

[XemaSab]

3. Of course this is a link from FOX

:banghead:

[Frisbee]

4. Saral Palin was made to solve this problem....

just give her a 30-06 and 1000 rounds. Problem solved. Of course were someone to plug the barrel, I wouldn't object.

[superconnected]

5. Horning? Not honing? What does horning mean?

[superconnected]

6. Wow it is as bad as the term sounds

Horn

–verb (used with object)
30.
to cuckold.
31.
to butt or gore with the horns.
32.
Shipbuilding . to set up (a frame or bulkhead of a vessel being built) at a proper angle to the keel with due regard to the inclination of the keel on the ways; plumb.

from - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/horn

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however:

hone:

–verb (used with object)
3.
to sharpen on a hone: to hone a carving knife.
4.
to enlarge or finish (a hole) with a hone.
5.
to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect: to hone one's skills.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/honing

[ceveritt]

8. I hate to be pedantic,

not that it usually stops me.

However, worldwebonline.com says horning in means:

Verb: horn in

Search or inquire in a meddlesome way

"This guy is always horning in around the
office";

- intrude, pry, nose, poke

Derived forms: horned in, horning in, horns in
Type of: look, search

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/HORNIN

It was an attempt at a joke, perhaps even a double entendre, in the headline.

I'll go away now.

[superconnected]

9. I think this calls for being pedantic - thanks for pointing that out!

[deacon_sephiroth]

7. in before the new AZ law

I'd jsut like to say, I am officially in before AZ passes a law requiring law enforcement to stop any animals near the border with reasonable suspicion and demand to see thier endangered species paperwork.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. If those pronghorns weren't born here, what gives them the right to cross our border?!

Next thing you know, Mexican pronghorns and American pronghorns will want to mate with each other. THEN we'll have a real mess!

[kaiden]

11. We have pronghorns in Colorado all along the Front Range.

I don't see how this can be an accurate story.

[Kali]

13. there are a bunch of small populations of subspecies

of several different animals in the area

lots of "discussion" whether they are in fact endangered or even separate species, and of course lots of land use politics around those "discussions"