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
Does the Supreme court refuse to follow immigration laws as they are now too? If so they need to be replaced with a court who will enforce those laws. We already know holder and obummer refuse to
I am getting sick of these sorry ass black people whining and saying everything is racist …..not all but most its not my fault your ancestors where slaves and chained and beaten…..my family never owned slaves….so I don’t owe you squat…..get over thinking everything is racist its not alright for a white person to call you n****r…..butr its alright for a n****r to call you a n****r you blacks are the racist pigs grow up and stop crying like a lil bitch
Why can’t the whole dam world learn to get along love an piece please
Bought that bitch off .the big o strikes again
NO IT IS NOT and HIM SAYING THAT IS TREASON AND HE IS AT WAR WITH OUR SECURITY>
$#%&!@* obama and his bitch judge
What bull$#%&!@*………..
who does he think he’is God putting up border’s?
_ DID YOU KNOW THIS..?.~~
Immigration Laws: Read to the bottom or you will miss the message…
1 There will be no bilingual programs in the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation’s language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Non-residents will NEVER have the right to vote.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER hold political office.
6. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.
7. Minimum foreign investment 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. Owning prime real estate is reserved for natives.
9. Foreigners may not protest, demonstrate, wave a foreign flag, politically organize or bad-mouth our president or his policies.
10. If you’re illegal, you will be hunted & sent to jail until you are deported. All assets will be taken from you.
Too strict?……
The above laws are the current immigration laws of MEXICO !
well he probably isn’t geting his water stolen or his livestock shot either.