Some border cities blocking access to border-fence land
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Brownsville, Congress, Department of Homeland Security, El Paso, federal government, Mexico, Monica Weisberg Stewart, Pat Ahumada, politics, property, Supreme Court, Texas, Texas Border Coalition, Texas-Mexico border, USAMayors along the Texas-Mexico border have begun a quiet protest of the federal government’s plans to build a fence along the border: Some are refusing access to their land.
Mayors in Brownsville, Del Rio and El Paso have denied or limited access to some parts of their city property to Department of Homeland Security workers assigned to begin surveys or other preliminary work on the fence Congress has authorized to keep out illegal immigrants. Eagle Pass has denied a request from federal officials to build a portion of the wall within its city limits.
Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada said Tuesday that he refused two weeks ago to sign documents granting federal workers permission to begin work if it was to be on city property. Del Rio granted limited access and El Paso allowed workers only on its outskirts, said Monica Weisberg Stewart of the Texas Border Coalition, a group that represents local officials.
“This is exercising our rights. This is our property,” Ahumada said. “We are not going to make it easy for them.”
Woohoo… between this and the states refusing to implement the REAL ID we may have a set of very interesting state rights battles in our future. As with the DC gun case to be heard by the Supreme Court… this could accelerate the trek toward tyranny or start applying the break. Lets hope it’s the latter.
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