Posted on 12/17/2008 2:44:21 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
EL PASO, Texas — A 55-year-old Army veteran hunkered down in front of construction crews who were building the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday, halting work for about eight hours before she was arrested.
Judy Ackerman, one of about a dozen people at a peaceful protest east of El Paso on Wednesday, was handcuffed by Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers after several hours of figuring out which authority was responsible for removing her. It wasn't clear what charges she'd face.
Work on the fence resumed immediately after Ackerman was led away. Before her arrest, the white-haired woman sporting a reflective vest and hard had cheerfully chatted with authorities. About 20 workers were milling around the site, leaning against heavy equipment and dump trucks and taking pictures of her with their cell phones.
"They have a job to do, but today their job is to take a break," said Ackerman, a retired sergeant major who spent 26 years in the Army.
Ackerman crossed a canal before workers arrived and took up a position on a levee where large steel poles were being erected. The levee is in a desolate area several miles east of downtown El Paso, near the 370-acre Rio Bosque Wetlands Park.
"They have this wonderful park here, and the wall is messing it up," said Ackerman, who said she's never been arrested before. "This is life. The river is life. But not the wall; the wall is death."
Ackerman was on land maintained by the International Boundary and Water Commission land, the binational agency that maintains the boundary between Mexico and the U.S.
Al Riera, the principal engineer for the IBWC, said officials there were notified about her presence early Wednesday and told to contact authorities to have her removed. Officials spent several hours trying to....
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“hard had” is probably a hard hat.:^)
Wrap a logging chain around her waist and hook it on a skid loader. Drop her off wherever you want or wherever she requests to be dropped off.
No problem.
Hmm tell that to the victim's families who have been raped, robbed & murdered by illegals! Or to the people who have lost work due to illegals. Or to the hospitals that have to shut down because the illegals have not paid their bills & so on....
I don’t know... we haven’t seen a pic of her yet.
;^)
No Rachel pancake this time...thanks for your service, SargMajor, but GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Death Wall ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
It’s a doggone shame the river is being walled off. From our side no less. But the only alternative is permanently stationing soldiers on the border with machine gun towers every 100 yards. That would cost a lot more and “wall of death” would have some real meaning. I would rather wall foreigners out than have them shot.
Yes, it is a shame but what else are we to do? Just let them continue to come on in? Or like you said station soldiers there....And I can see more problems with that.
With all our technology, we can’t come up with a better plan? Night vision, videos, etc.
You would think so. I don’t know the answers for this problem but I know we have to do something asap. IMHO it should have been taken care of many years ago....
“Wrap a logging chain around her waist and hook it on a skid loader.”
Or you could just give her a hearty shove so that she staggers over to mexico side and keep working....
...”officials said that 500 miles of fencing had been built along the border with Mexico.”
Is it 500 miles of Hunter’s DOUBLE fencing as mandated and signed into law by Bush?
Are they implying it took over 8 hours before they could decide on, who was suppose to arrest her ?
On the other hand, IMO, we should just conquer Mexico, slaughter and behead drug lords, and reduce the white ruling class to the poor beggars, and make Mexico a place their people want to stay in.
Very interesting.
They were more oriented to keeping people in rather than out. (for some strange reason) Your second paragraph makes a lot of sense though.
Yes it's sad that this fence needs to be built but the majority of Americans are getting pretty tired of people invading our country, busting our boarders, breaking our laws and then telling us we owe them.
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