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.
Kick him off the bench
THIS IS THE INSANE PRESIDENTS WAY OF GETTING BACK AT TEXAS AND ARIZONA FOR EVEN THINKING OF ABDICATING AND BECOMING THERE OWN ENTITY. THIS IS HOW A CORRUPT CHILDISH INSANE LIAR KILLER PRESIDENT REACTS TO WE DON’T WANT OR NEED YOUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP IN OUT STATE. I SAY TEXAS AND ARIZONA NEED TO BAND TOGETHER AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH US CORRUPT GOVERNMENT RULE. THE TWO STATES CAN MAKE IT ON THERE OWN WITH THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT AND OWN MILITARY BIGGER BADDER AND BETTER THEN A CYNICAL LYING CHEATING CORRUPT US GOVERNMENT. I SAY TEXAS AND ARIZONA BREAK FREE STAND ALONE ON YOUR OWN.
Really, at this point doesn’t having an unmanned fence even matter? It might as well not even be there.
This is so much bull.
That judge must be impeached. He is a traitor, and who cares what disparate equality? I absolutely despise them acting as if the stinking illegal aliens across the border are WELCOME here. They absolutely are NOT. I hope someone manages to get rid of the judge, and Obama. And soon!
This is absolutely disgusting on our federal government. These are real people who have been given the false impression (and I wonder from whom did this rumor originate so he can declare an emergency executive order to deal with this newly false created disaster and come riding in on his false white horse to save the day and declare amnesty to them all. That should create an uprising from American citizens encouraging Obozo to declare “martial Law” and then declare himself dictator of the USA). WAKE UP AMERICA AND SEE WHAT THIS BOZO IS ACCOMPLISHING. HE PROMISED CHANGE AND HE IS DOING IT RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES AND CONGRESS IS FREAKIN BLIND AND CANNOT SEE IT. FIRE THEM ALL COME ELECTING TIME that is if there will be another election.
Really, it’s keeping illegals out!
Why is it that since Obama has taken office has the term racist seems to be a daily excuse for someone disagreeing??? Usually those who throw labels on people seem to wear their share of signs!!!
obama’s racist
Just another LAWYER (judge) that knows NOTHING about LAW!