Backing Homeland Security's disputed right to bypass environmental law, a federal judge lifted the final legal barrier to building a triple fence in the southwestern corner of the United States, which will essentially wall of Tijuana from San Diego, and "destroy protected lands and lead to the death of immigrants," reports Salon. | SFGate 
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The final leg of the fence would cross steep, rugged canyons including "Smuggler's Gulch," a maze of trails long overrun by illegal border crossers. The federal government launched a crackdown in 1994, erecting a steel wall made of surplus Navy landing mats, adding patrols and installing lights and motion sensors.
Known as Operation Gatekeeper, the effort forced smugglers and migrants inland to sparsely populated highlands and deserts.
The 2006 Homeland Security budget includes $35 million to cover most of the work.
The project would require crews to move 2.1 million cubic yards of dirt in Smuggler's Gulch alone, or enough to fill about 300,000 dump trucks.
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The measure would, for the first time, make it a federal crime to live in the United States illegally, transforming millions of immigrants in this country into felons ineligible for converting to any legal status in the United States. Currently, living in this country without a visa, work permit, green card or other appropriate document is a violation of civil immigration law, not criminal law.
The bill also broadens the statute designed to combat immigrant smuggling to include people who shield, harbor or offer support to illegal immigrants, like employees of social service agencies and church groups, as well as those who house or transport illegal immigrants. Violators could face up to five years in prison.
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