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
So what. It’s our country!
They want amnesty, but no $#%&!@*ing security. Can’t have your cake $#%&!@*s and eat it too!
Omg all this racist bull$#%&!@* so sick of that word hay michelle ban that word!!! Jeez
What part of the law is he quoting, None. Judges are not to make laws but to enforce laws. This Judge needs to be thrown out on his ear, replaced by some one that knows the difference and rules by the Constitution and Bill of Rights and the laws that are on the books. Time to put the racial epitaph to bed.
I get so tired of hearing the illegal problem being a racist thing race does my ass illegal is illegal I don’t give a $#%&!@* what color you are does a cop give a damn if you’re doing 90 miles an hour in a 55 we give you a ticket because you’re a white guy or black guy I know God you people get over themselves its not a race issue
Looks like they can have their cake and eat it too. This time with a gold spoon free everything when they do get here.
to HELL with Obama and his dead beat judge, it is racist at all, it is to keep his stupid illegals out of our country. They need to move down there with his cartel dirt-bags
We need to move down there and be the dirt bags!!! Patriots
kill the $#%&!@*ing illegals and the rest of the obama voters the world would be better off sorry the truth hurts but still does not make this post wrong
Once again liberalism is a severe mental disorder