A Line in the Sand
Lee on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
*Gasp* Is that a border? A real, defined, fenced, national border? For our country?? Trick photography surely.
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Whose Border Is It Anyway?
peter on Jan 18 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
This was inevitable:
Eloisa Tamez says she isn’t scared anymore, just determined. “I am not backing down,” she said.
Tamez owns three acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border where the Department of Homeland Security would like to build a border fence. The property is a remnant of a 12,000-acre grant from Spain to her family in 1767, before the United States even existed.
“It is my history. It is my heritage,” Tamez said.
This week, the Justice Department began legal action against landowners and municipalities who have refused to give government surveyors access to their land.
Tamez expects she will be sued sometime soon, but she is not intimidated.
Asked how long she will fight, she said, “As long as I have to.”
At the link above, don’t forget to check out the video link of Chertkoff not even offering to kiss them first. About a hundred landowners on the border in Texas are fighting the taking of their land by Department of Homeland Security, and they aren’t the only ones. Many municipalities are fighting it too:
Some residents and elected officials in South Texas have tried to block the government’s progress by refusing to let surveyors come on border properties to look at land that could be the site of new fencing.
Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada was among the first elected officials to refuse the government’s requests for access. He said the city would do all it could to keep federal officials off city land.
You know how all knowledge is local knowledge? Well maybe it’s time we listened a little to the locals:
Richard Cortez, the mayor of the border town of McAllen, Texas, believes hiring more Border Patrol agents, deepening the Rio Grande River, and clearing its banks of tall vegetation would provide better border protection than the fence.
Cortez calls the fence “a multibillion dollar speed bump,” which will slow, but not stop, illegal immigration.
“It is a false sense of security,” he says. “America will not be safe. America will continue to waste resources on something that is not going to work.”
How do you say “Kelo” in Spanish?
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