The border wall will divide this Texas town, displacing or blocking homes - but where?

[riversedge]

This really is the definition of Trump insanity. I can not imagine what it would be like to live next---and have to look at and constantly view a tall ugly WALL!




https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-roma-texas-wall/







The border wall will divide this Texas town, displacing or blocking homes - but where?



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" This is our land. " — Maria Guadalupe “Lupita” Rios




Maria Guadalupe “Lupita” Rios’ family created the colonia De La Cruz neighborhood in Roma, Texas. The streets are named after her relatives.

The wall has created acute uncertainty in the neighborhood; even Roma city officials aren’t certain where it would go.

“Are they going to go through those houses? The [river]banks? Will there be a gate there?” Assistant City Manager Freddy Guerra said. “We haven’t received a definitive answer from Border Patrol.”

Daniel Trevino, 52, who teaches environmental science at the local middle school, says his students ask whether they will still be able to reach the river to fish after school.

“I don’t know what to tell them,” Trevino said. He supports more border security — “I stand by my commander in chief” — but wishes the government would “look at these things more closely before they start tearing things down.”
A coyote runs along the outskirts of colonia De La Cruz after escorting a group of immigrants across the Rio Grande.

Some locals consider the proposed wall a vital safeguard; others dismiss it as a wasteful stunt. Most wish the government would be more forthcoming about where it will erect barriers spanning 37 miles of the Rio Grande Valley, the primary entry point for illegal immigration into the United States. The Border Patrol has yet to release precise maps. Throughout the valley, residents have grown frustrated and distrustful.

Last month, more than four dozen nonprofit and faith-based groups wrote to congressional leaders demanding that they require the Homeland Security Department to submit border security plans, which were due in September, before approving added funding for the wall. At a rally across the street from the McAllen Border Patrol station on Nov. 11, wall opponents toted signs saying “Save Our Homes” and “No wall thru our homeland.” Demonstrators dubbed the protest a “town hall” in the absence of public meetings by immigration officials.

“They refuse to listen to our concerns and take us into account,” Suzanne El-Haj, 20, an environmental organizer at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, told the crowd of about 100.

[Ilsa]

1. About 100 years ago, perhaps a little

further back, the residents of the Texas Rio Grande Valley would physically fight anyone trying to take their land. This area was settled by whites moving westward and hispanics, with culturally diverse families marrying. These people's lives and histories are tied to this land going back five or six generations, at least. They won't give it up quickly or easily.