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
All his ‘crony’s’ can go over there too. GET THE $#%&!@* OUT OF THE UNITED STATES AND STAY OUT.!!!!!
WE PUT IT UP TO KEEP ILLEGALS OUT!!
Fire him
Hell yeah. Take down all the wall and fences and borders north and south. rip them out of the ground. Put up a big ass building for handing out passes. Free passes to everything. Schooling, jobs, medicals and give each one $5,000 to hold them over until they find said jobs. Add some McDonald’s, Arbys, Toco Bells. And a few bars with free beer. I don’t give a rats ass anymore about it. Let all Obama’s relatives come over free. Give each adult a free hand gun of their choice and a AR15 for hunting to fee their multitude of kids. Hell I’ll buy the first box of shells for the bastards.
Obama approved means paid to say what he is told.
And the judge is stupid. He is not motivated by serving justice but rather politics.
If a nations border security is racist, then the standard by which nations protect themselves is also racist, making all the worlds countries racist, which makes racism a world standard, which means racism is norm. If racism is the norm then racism is accepted by most. In fact, everyone is racist according to the definition of the word. And so I say whats wrong with being racist. I have found that oftentimes the biggest racists are the ones that hide behind the laws that criminalize racism, and the people who claim to be the protectors of all who were subject to “racism.” In addition, since we need more fences and walls along the US border with Mexico in order to keep out the illegals, drug smugglers, and terrorists, and we must increase our racist fortitude, become stronger racists, vigilant racists, and persistent racists.
what the hell is wrong with this place? The country is manged by RETARDS! there has to be something in the water.
Mexicans are the minority in Mexico? New math.
Another Judge with his head up his Ass.