Texas Mayors Block Feds From Building Border Wall

City officials in Texas Border towns are blocking federal officials from coming into their towns to build walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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October 4, 2007, 8:00 AM PDT

By Nate Berg

"Mayors in Brownsville, Del Rio and El Paso have denied or limited access to some parts of their city property to Department of Homeland Security workers assigned to begin surveys or other preliminary work on the fence Congress has authorized to keep out illegal immigrants."

"'This is exercising our rights. This is our property,' Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada said. 'We are not going to make it easy for them.'"

"In Eagle Pass, Mayor Chad Foster said his city has refused the U.S. Border Patrol's request to build 1 1/4 miles of fencing as part of a project that includes light towers and a new road for border patrols."

"Brownsville, a city in South Texas of about 170,000 people across the Rio Grande from Matamoros, Mexico, said the city also was considering a lawsuit against the federal government to prevent the fence's construction on city property."

Read the full story: Texas border mayors block access to proposed fence sites

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 in The Houston Chronicle

Government / Politics Texas

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