The environment is in safe hands, after all, under the Bush administration.

Even if the EPA lets all kinds of stuff slip through the cracks, Secretary Chertoff and the Homeland Security Department are there to pick up the slack:

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday defended the construction of a fence along the southwest border …

“Illegal migrants really degrade the environment. I’ve seen pictures of human waste, garbage, discarded bottles and other human artifact (sic) in pristine areas,” Chertoff said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “And believe me, that is the worst thing you can do to the environment.”