Posted on 09/02/2008 11:45:45 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
GRANJENO - Border residents are being asked to act as witnesses to any “abuses” perpetrated by the Department of Homeland Security or its agents during construction of the border wall. Documented evidence of “abuse” is being sought by the No Border Wall group in the hope that it can be used as testimony at congressional hearings held to review the border wall project...
Although the No Border Wall group originated in the Rio Grande Valley, No Border Wall spokeswoman Stefanie Herweck said....."The feeling is that we have until now and January, when the new Congress meets and the new administration comes in, to create a national movement against the border wall.”
Herweck announced details of the “Border Wall Documentation Project” at a rally against the border wall in Granjeno on Monday evening. Granjeno, a small town south of Mission, Texas, is one of the locations identified by Border Patrol as a prime site for a border wall. Currently, construction crews are in Granjeno to build a concrete levee-wall...
.After her speech, Herweck handed out leaflets telling local residents how they could participate in the Border Wall Documentation Project...Herweck said she hoped that by acting as witnesses to any “crimes” committed by DHS, Granjeno and other border residents could provide “ample evidence to Congress that the border wall project is a tremendous national mistake...
Herweck urged border residents to compile a list of the negative impacts or foreseeable negative impacts a border wall creates...The No Border Wall leaflet listed 12 potential examples of both the “negative impacts” the border wall could create and the “abuses” DHS could perpetrate:
1) Local evidence that the border wall project is not related to CBP operational needs and not a part of a coherent border security strategy; 2) Local evidence that the border wall does not work 3) Inadequate or non-existent consultation with local officials about border wall construction; 4) Refusal to engage in fair negotiation with local property owners and strong arm tactics; 5) Local evidence that the border wall is inhumane and is causing unnecessary human suffering and death; 6) Studies ensuring the safety of wall segments have not been done; 7) Evidence that DHS is disregarding public safety in border wall construction; 8) Adverse impacts on local communities, businesses, agriculture, and the economy as a whole, both immediate and foreseeable; 9) Adverse impacts on the local environment, both immediate and foreseeable; 10) Disproportionate negative impacts on low-income and minority populations; 11) Evidence of DHS disregarding or squelching the opinions of other government agencies, such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and the Environmental Protection Agency; 12) Criticism of DHS’s “Environmental Stewardship Plans” for local sectors....
The e-mail address for such “evidence” is borderwalldocumentation@yahoo.com. The fax number is 956-968-1388, and the physical address is No Border Wall, PO Box 8124, Weslaco, Texas 78599....
Granjeno resident Daniel Garza told the Guardian he could provide plenty of evidence that the border wall construction is causing unnecessary human suffering against minority populations. He pointed out that Granjeno is more than 95 percent Hispanic.
“The traffic, the noise and the dust are getting worse every day. You can’t come out of your house because of the noise. Seven days a week from sunrise to sundown. It never ends,” said Garza, who sits and watches the levee wall going up behind his back yard. “We are all waiting for a new president who will stop this nonsense. We are hoping for change.”
Herweck claims to have “Local evidence that the border wall does not work”
If walls don’t help keeping criminals out then she should have the exterior walls of her house removed and see if she feels the same way this time next year.
This is a comical statement to the point of farce. If Granjeno is "95 percent Hispanic" (always capitalized, bolded, lighted, fluffed up), then what "minority" is he talking about? The 10 remaining Americans in town?
This is part of the predictable end game of the 'civil rights' hustle currently being perpetrated by the Mexican government against the U.S.: advancing the idea that a border is racist, and therefore impermissible - in other words, invasion is a civil right, as long as the invaders aren't white Anglo-Saxons.
It's a good con. Gotta give the Mexicans credit for seeing the angle, and exploiting it.
We are hoping for 20,000,000 to re-find their Mexican Paradise...
ping
Probably couldn't get enough contributions in the food boogie-man area and decided to branch out.
No need to be that drastic. Just remove all the fences in town. Every one of them. Try a month of that and see who wants their fence put back up.
Looks like the usual anarchists, America haters and communists. La Raza irridentists too
There is a good chance any action DHS has that’ll be documented as “crimes” will be in reaction to hostile behavior initiated by folks like Herweck.
LOL! the wall is supposed to HARM YOU if you decise to try scaling it. What a dumbass Heweck is.
The “No Border Wall group”
Needs to pay for and house all the illegals as their 1st step toward doing something good for this country. If they can’t do that... then they need to find a way to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
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