Proposed immigration “enforcement“ in the Boundary Waters
This is recent.
Minnesota Democrats and wilderness advocates are raising alarm about a proposal in the U.S. Senate that would allow the federal government to do border control operations and install tactical infrastructure and surveillance systems in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness…
The bill is supported by Republican Rep. Pete Stauber, whose district includes the BWCAW…
Minnesota U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith warned the bill could drastically damage the area, which is the most-visited wilderness area in the United States.
(MSN)
As I live just north of the dividing line between MN-08 and MN-06 Stauber is “my” representative in the U.S. House. Fortunately Klobuchar and Smith have far more pull in Congress than a sorry backbencher like Pete does. In all likelihood this bill is going nowhere. Stauber tried to get language that would allow sulfide mining in northern Minnesota, by among other things circumventing any and all court rulings, into the Big Bullshit Bill. It’s telling that that was too much even for the current Congress, and it got pulled.
There’s no question that if things keep going as they are – and there’s every reason to believe that they will, and will in fact get even worse – Stauber will be seriously vulnerable in 2026. Maybe he’s complacent. Or maybe he doesn’t get that Minnesotans love the BWCAW, and actually believes that supporting asinine nonsense like this bill will help save his ass. It doesn’t matter.
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