One of Obama’s pet federal judges says installing fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border could discriminate against minorities. Judge Beryl Howell’s statement paves the way for further erosion of the Homeland Security project intended to control illegal immigration and curtail the spill-over of violent crime on the rise in Mexico. Howell stated in her ruling that the congressionally approved project may have a “disparate impact on lower-income minority communities.”
This of course means that protecting the porous—and increasingly violent—southern border is politically incorrect. At least that’s what the public college professor at the center of the case is working to prove and this month she got help from a sympathetic federal judge. Denise Gilman, a clinical professor at the taxpayer-funded University of Texas-Austin, is researching the “human rights impact” of erecting a barrier to protect the U.S. from terrorists, illegal immigrants, drug traffickers and other serious threats.A 2006 federal law orders the construction of fencing or a wall along the most vulnerable portions of the nearly 2,000-mile southern border. This includes reinforced fencing along 700 miles of the southwest border with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determining the exact spots. Professor Gilman wants the identities of the landowners in the planned construction site to shed light on the impact the fencing will have on indigenous, minority and low-income communities. The feds refused to provide the information, asserting that it’s private.
The professor sued in federal court arguing that the public interest in how the fence will impact landowners outweighed any privacy concerns. The data will allow the public to analyze whether the government is treating property owners equally and fairly or whether the wall is being built in such a way that it disadvantages “minority property owners,” according to the professor. It will also help the public understand the actual dimensions of the wall and decisions related to where it’s placed.
Judge Beryl Howell, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Obama in 2010, agreed that the public interest is significant. Her 37-page ruling also seems to indicate that she bought the discrimination argument. “Revealing the identities of landowners in the wall’s planned construction site may shed light on the impact on indigenous communities, the disparate impact on lower-income minority communities, and the practices of private contractors,” Howell wrote.
What do you think? Is the project to secure the border racist or is that a red-herring to distract from other issues?
Source: Judicial Watch
Photo: BBC World Service
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Like fleas the IllEGALS
Will just look for the
Next warm body I.e..
‘sanctuary city’ to INFECT… (((( ENOUGH ))))
_ Just for a moment,
Think about this
SCENARIO In Your
Own Home___
Let’s say you discover me in your house,
You insist that I leave.
But I say, ‘No! I like it here.
It’s better than my house.
I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes
And did the laundry and vacuumed.
All the things you don’t like to do.
I’m hard-working and honest
(except for when I broke into your house).
According to the protesters:
You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to feed me
You are Required to add me
To your family’s insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide
Other benefits to me & to my family
My wife will do all of your yard work
Because she is also hard-working and honest.
(except for that breaking in part).
If you try to call the police or force me out,
I will call my friends who will picket
Your house carrying signs
That proclaim my RIGHT to be there.
I’ll claim this property
Under the Homestead Act
After all, It’s only fair,
You have a nicer house than I do,
I’m just trying to better myself.
I’m a hard-working and Honest, person,
Except for well, you know,
That pesky breaking and entering part.
And it’s Great for me,
I live in your house, no taxes,
Contributing only a fraction
Of the cost of my keep,
And there is Nothing you can do about it
Without being accused of cold,
Uncaring, selfish,
Prejudiced,
And bigoted behavior.
Oh yeah,
And I DEMAND that you learn
MY LANGUAGE!!!
So that you can communicate with me
That ‘- HOUSE – IS OUR
**AMERICA**
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*America* the Country that built the
Panama Canal, Hoover Dam
An Intercontinental Rail Road,
National Freeways and
Put Men on the Moon,
But Washington Can’t …
Build a Border Fence??
Or is it Really (( WØN’T ))_
As with anything coming out of their mouth’s. He say’s it enough and it means nothing. Best platform he used to get into office. Only platform he will use to stop truth from happening. He just keeps calling wolf.
And the problem with that is?
STUPID judge
I’m wondering, what law schools are teaching these young judges that illegal aliens, foreign nationals, any non U.S. citizen has the rights and protection under the U.S. constitution?
NOT AS LONG AS I’M ALIVE! I’LL GET MY GUN AND DO IT MYSELF! NO MORE ILLEGALS! PERIOD!
Obama is racist as well as an idiot. He is out with his friends to destroy the United States of America by any means.
What law schools are teaching these judges that illegal aliens, foreign nationals, any non U.S. citizen has the rights and protection of the U.S. constitution?