Republicans, Local Sheriff Warn Border Wilderness Zone Will Create Vast Drug Corridor

Republicans, Local Sheriff Warn Border Wilderness Zone Will Create Vast Drug Corridor: A pending proposal from President Obama to create a vast new wilderness area on the U.S.-Mexico border is drawing criticism from Republican lawmakers and local law enforcement officials who say it would significantly impede border security.

The Obama administration is set to designate a 600,000 acre national monument in south-central New Mexico to be managed and controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency. The designated land will be called the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, and environmentalists have long-sought the designation.

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