Judge Beryl Howell, appointed by Obama to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2010, just ruled that the Mexican border fence is racist.
The ruling states that the border fence may have a “disparate impact on lower-income minority communities.”
So now we can’t even protect our borders because of ‘political correctness’.
A Homeland Security initiative to put fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border could discriminate against minorities, according to an Obama-appointed federal judge who’s ruled 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.
This is simply the latest controversy to strike the border fence project since Congress approved it to protect national security and curb an illegal immigration and drug-trafficking crisis. In the last few years the mayors of several Texas border towns have blocked federal access to areas where the fence is scheduled to be built, an Indian tribe tried to block the barrier in the Arizona desert by claiming the feds were intruding on tribal land and a group of government scientists claimed the fencing would threaten the black bear population.
Open it up. Let’s clean house on those that show up. Put them on reservations like Indians. Except their land is in death vally.
LOL….dont want to pollute Death Valley man, bad ass 4wheelin
It will make good foder for the devils golf course
That’s not a real judge. I wouldn’t let him judge a weaner eating contest. Well maybe that but that’s the only thing he should be judging
amen to this what a idiot tired hearing of the word racist if all of them want the illegals here there should pay for all of them to live here and health insurance not the American people lots of people here barly have a nave for them selfs there is no more room or money for all this illegals here
This Judge was bought and paid for by Obama, he cares nothing about what American’s think of the tomatoe pickers, all they are good for and we have machines that can do that. I really hope that the next President is a Repuvblican so anything Obama has done can be un-done. American’s 83% of us does not want illegals here, they broke into our Country and Obama is rewarding them for breaking Our Laws, so we should break our laws to and deport thee illegals ourselves with what ever force it takes, There are 318 million American Citizen’s and say around 20 million illegals, so do the math. Everytime I go into Walmart I see the illegals with at least two to three buggies full of moocher groceries and it makes me mad as heck. They should be deported back to their Countries and forced to apply for Citizenship the right way and then they would be welcomed, but as it is now, they are not wanted here by American’s.