...after promising to consult with local officials, federal authorities recently invited contract

[rodeodance]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/us/20border.html?th&emc=th
June 20, 2007
Some Texans Say Border Fence Will Sever Routine
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL


“Part of our university,” Dr. Zavaleta said, “would be on the Mexican side of the fence.”
..........

But maps like the one shown in Brownsville on June 4 by Chief David Aguilar of the Border Patrol put the route along a levee built inland to hold back flooding on the Rio Grande. That location, some here say, would in effect cede to Mexico the land on the other side of the fence up to the official international border, the middle of the Rio Grande.
..........

Even the heavily trafficked bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico, would be on the Mexican side of the fence, Dr. Zavaleta said.
..........

But in Laredo, where Mayor Raul G. Salinas, a former officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has complained of being bypassed, a city spokeswoman, Xochitl Mora Garcia, said that after promising to consult with local officials, federal authorities recently invited contract proposals for construction of the fence.

“What they’re saying and doing are two different things,” Ms. Garcia said.

[mainegreen]

1. A border fence that isn't on the border? Your tax dollars hard at work!

Working weekends