Forget the fence: How about very muddy marshland instead?

Carolyn Hileman* | December 27, 2007

Sean Holstege
The Arizona Republic

YUMA - Stopping illegal immigration at the border is often at odds with protecting the environment. But a group of southwestern Arizona leaders wants to do both and is seeking approval from U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. The idea calls for creating a marshland along the lower Colorado River south of Yuma by clearing thick brush, building steep levees and flooding dry riverbanks. The Yuma mayor, Yuma County sheriff and Cocopah tribal chairwoman wrote Chertoff about the plan in late September just as conventional riverside fence construction was starting. The leaders asked Chertoff to halt the fence and use the money to flood a 435-acre area known as Hunter’s Hole, an overgrown haven for smugglers and drug dealers and a dumping place for bodies.

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