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.
I am sick of Obama and his bull$#%&!@* $#%&!@*ing up our country. He needs to be thrown on his ass and pushed out of this country. He is a traitor!
if i’m texas. i would defy the federal government over this.and tell obama’s bootlicker to drop dead.
Race has nothing to do with protecting our country. If that is the case then any war is racist is it not?
Legals came through Ellis Island with a job waiting for them, a complete physical, a place to live, and no matter what their race, they knew we were a multicultural country and welcomed them. They did not expect to have everything given to them free. The illegals are the problem, and we should be feeding our own American children, not by color, but by need.
Sow is he
Of course the Judge would say that. I mean yes Obama did appoint him but we Must remember it was Congress that said yes to him after Obama appointed him. So i ask is he working for Obama who cannot fire him or Congress who can? if Obama then it is Obama’s fault but remember only Congress can fire a federal offical.
Figures
Looks like steel to Me ! And there isn’t anything wrong with Hispanics coming here IF they come Here the Right Way ,though the gate -learn English Pay Taxes obey our laws like the rest of Us do ! Cut the C**P ! Illegals not welcome !!!
It’s not our job to help lower income ILLEGAL minorites.
the judge is racist