Lawmakers vow to preserve historic tribal cemetery in path of border wall plans

NBC4 (Texas) ^ | 14 Sep 2019 | Sandra Sanchez

[BeauBo]

Several members and supporters of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas have been camping at a historic cemetery since January in hopes of preventing the federal government from building a border wall through the gravesites.

Fifty to 150 graves are located at the historic Eli Jackson Cemetery, which is in such a remote location that most Internet maps refer to it by longitude and latitude coordinates....

two supporters of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe diligently watched guard over the area. They did not want to be photographed or quoted “for security reasons,” but they did allow Border Report onto the property and gave this reporter a tour and allowed photos...

Tribal spokeswoman Ruth Garcia told Border Report that for the past seven months, someone has always been at the camp maintaining a vigil because they cannot allow their “sacred” cemetery to be destroyed by the border wall.

“We have ancestors who are buried there, some in unmarked graves but it’s mainly the desecration of our lands we are fighting,” Garcia said via phone...

On Monday, CBP sent this statement "the current plan for border barrier alignment in this location does not impact the Eli Jackson Cemetery site.”..

During a visit to South Texas on Sunday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,(D-California), and 12 other members of Congress, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, (D-Texas), announced that they were working to exempt Eli Jackson Cemetery and other historic cemeteries that might be in the path of the proposed border wall.

“Our intent now is to add a sixth area (of border wall exemption) and that is to include the historical cemeteries, like Jackson Cemetery, to make sure they aren’t included so we won’t put a fence on that.”

[BeauBo]

This is another Leftist ploy, to throw up obstacles in front of border wall construction.

They made up an imaginary Indian Tribe (not Federally recognized), and camped out in a tiny old church graveyard, claiming it to be their sacred homeland (they won't allow themselves to be photographed - probably because they are the re-cycled protesters from the Dakota Access Pipeline and Occupy Wall Street).

Said one of their leaders (who was not so drug-addled, that he could still form sentences): "Our medicines are there. There is a tree there related to our people. We don’t believe that there should be so much genocide going on"

Nonetheless, Congressman Henry Cuellar (D, Los Zetas) said that intends to use it to slip another poison pill into the next appropriations ("...and other historic cemeteries that might be"...)

Berm in the background is the levee, which would be upgraded to FEMA Hurricane standards, and get bollards on top.

Hippie homeless encampment, behind the back fence:

[Mariner]

I completely understand they don’t want a border wall through the middle of their cemetery. It’s holy ground.

We should let them know a wall will not pass through it.

Unfortunately, that means we’ll have to put the wall up just north of this holy ground, leaving it on the south side of the wall.

[gubamyster]

What better way to preserve their cemetery from illegal alien invaders trekking through, than to build a Big Beautiful Wall around it?

[dp0622]

Well that makes me feel like a weasel because for the right price I’d lend a hand in moving pop’s casket to a nicer place with more shade.

He’s DEAD. Either in Heaven or non existent.

Either way, he won’t mind.

[Openurmind]

What them say it actually comprises 4 million square miles. This is how they do things like this.

[dsrtsage]

Build a wall from the ocean to the west boundary, then from the gulf tothe east boundary. Then let whoevery they want trample the ground between

[coaster123]

“two supporters of the Carrizo /Comecrudo Tribe diligently watched guard”

Two degenerate Millennials. How come the tribe isn’t standing guard?

[BitWielder1]

This works:

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[bgill]

If the names on the stones were Smith and Jones, it’d be plowed under and the stones relocated.

[glennaro]

This would require an opening in the fence, so I presume the triggered injuns are less triggered by Mexican drug runners stomping across the graveyard than by the surface feature of a security fence.

[Incorrigible]

But it's OK to build a 6 lane highway through a Catholic cemetery.

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Newark, NJ

 

[Macoozie]

I don’t give a flying fickle finger.
Dig em up and move em, or blacktop over em.

Indians lost the war, remember?

Build the Wall!

[aquila48]

Easy solution. Build the wall around it and leave the cemetery on the Mexican side and let the Indians protect it from the invaders.

[Wilhelm Tell]

You know it. Drug runners and gangs tramping through the cemetery - they have no problem with that.

[bigbob]

Heh, I think we should treat it just like we’d do if a confederate war cemetery with a statue of Jefferson Frickin Davis stood in the way!

[matt1234]

The Indian Wars never ended. Today’s battlefields are courtrooms.

[Do_Tar]

When they built the Desert Diamond Casino in Sahuarita, AZ they found a burial ground with about 150 graves. The tribe moved the remains from this “sacred site” to the other side of the highway.

[PIF]

“We have ancestors who are buried there, some in unmarked graves but it’s mainly the desecration of our lands we are fighting,” Garcia said via phone... She added that the payouts by the cartels keep her and her friends in the lifestyle they like - also they hand out really good weed free.

[Sequoyah101]

The Hekawi Tribe.

Scam, scam, scam.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Just leave the cemetery areas open. They will have a different opinion when they find that thousands of illegals having no regard for the dead, have walked all over the graves, taken a dump behind the stones, and in general made a trash dump of the area. They might even dig up a few of the older graves to find buried items to sell.