00:00The Department of Homeland Security is installing doggy doors on the border.
00:04I know that sounds crazy, but bear with me here.
00:06About 50 doggy door-type openings are being placed in the wall at the southern border
00:11to allow wildlife to roam more freely between the U.S. and Mexico.
00:16And this is great for skunks and badgers and foxes and weasels and rabbits,
00:21but not so much for the likes of mountain lions, jaguars, and deer.
00:25That's because these doggy doors will only be about the size of a piece of computer printer paper.
00:31And they're being placed only along a section of wall that's being built along the Arizona and California borders.
00:37And that number 50 is far too few for wildlife supporters and activists.
00:43One telling a local El Paso news outlet,
00:45quote, we can't simply be throwing away all of our biodiversity and our natural history heritage
00:51to solve a problem we could do more constructively with, you know, overhauling our immigration programs.
00:57A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection responded to criticism
01:01by promising that the agency would work closely with the National Park Service
01:05and other federal agencies to place these doggy doors
01:08in areas where data says they're going to be best utilized.
01:12And I should note that this is just one portion of the wall.
01:15Elsewhere along the border, the wall is more of a fence,
01:19which allows for small and medium-sized animals to roam freely.
01:22See you next time.
01:26Bye-bye.
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01:48Bye-bye.
01:51Bye-bye.
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