Mayors File Suit Over Border Fence
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 3:28pm
The border fence, that Republican idea that decreases in popularity the closer you get to the actual border, runs up against another barrier:
A group of Texas border mayors and business leaders says the federal government did not properly negotiate with landowners or inform them of their rights when surveying property for the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
The Texas Border Coalition plans to argue in a federal lawsuit that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff abused private property rights of property owners. Coalition spokeswoman Julie Hillrichs said the lawsuit will be filed Friday in Washington.
"Despite attempts to try to negotiate with DHS and Customs and Border Patrol, they refused to do so," Hillrichs said. "We don't want to file this suit, but this was the last resort."
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Border Fence and the wildlife refuge
By rabbit162
Sun, 05/18/2008 - 7:38pm
The mayors speak for their towns. The farmers speak for their farms. But who speaks for the wildlife? If an opaque border fence is put up at the edge of the Santa Aña Wildlife refuge, the birds and mammals that traditionally go back and forth between the refuge and the Rio Grande will be cut off, and the refuge itself will be in the dark. Or if the fence is put on the other side of the refuge, the public will not have access to it to see the wildlife!