"All in All Its Just Another Brick in the Wall"

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Homeland Security won’t say why the border wall is bypassing the wealthy and politically connected.


As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security marches down the Texas border serving condemnation lawsuits to frightened landowners, Brownsville resident Eloisa Tamez, 72, has one simple question. She would like to know why her land is being targeted for destruction by a border wall, while a nearby golf course and resort remain untouched.

Tamez, a nursing director at the University of Texas at Brownsville, is one of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron County. Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930s, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.

Now Homeland Security wants to put an 18-foot steel and concrete wall through what remains.

http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2688








Apaches fight Homeland Security for their land


Dr. Eloisa Garcia Tamez, Lipan Apache professor living in the Lower Rio Grande, described how US officials attempted to pressure her into allowing them onto her private land to survey for the US/Mexico border wall. When Tamez refused, she was told that she would be taken to court and her lands seized by eminent domain.

"I have told them that it is not for sale and they cannot come onto my land."

Tamez is among the land owners where the Department of Homeland Security plans to erect 70 miles of intermittent, double-layered fencing in the Rio Grande Valley.

Tamez said the United States government wants access to all of her land, which is on both sides of a levee. "Then they will decide where to build the wall. It could be over my house." Tamez said that she may only have three acres, but it is all she has.

Tamez' daughter Margo Tamez, poet and scholar, said, "We are not a people of walls. It is against our culture to have walls. The Earth and the River go together. We must be with the river. We must be with this land. We were born for this land."

Margo Tamez said the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples now guarantees the right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional territories.

http://tribes.tribe.net/aboriginalwrites/thread/8205f76a-f7d7-40b5-991b-e02368b90416

Another shameful example of the Rich receiving special treatment while the rest of us are treated like we don't exist.

In addition, I have one question to ask. Will this wall be more for keeping people out or for keeping people in? Think about it. All the constitutional eroding legislation and dictatorial like executive orders we've seen signed over the recent years. The hundreds of concentration camps and the Rex 84 program - (Video Clip).

Is all this latest hyping up of immigrants more a cover for another purpose behind this wall? Call it tinfoil if you want, but, am I the only one who sees red flags here?

Just some food for thought....