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
Where’d they dig this judge up from?
if its so wonderful in mexico and they do provide for there citizens ,just why do we need to have so many illegals in our country.do wenot have enough people all ready here that committ crimes.they do claim our prison are full .but this corrupt government does not enforce laws that may cost them votes……..this corrupt government by not enforceing the laws has created this class of illegals………. make new laws …and do you really think they will enforce them…..more democrap……
ssshhhh, keep quiet, our Gov’t & the Drug cartels all meet once a month to discuss the next shipment, talk to Jeb Bush ,..he’s the ring leader on this so called WAR ON DRUGS 😉
Indoctrination at its best.
Tell me how that can be racist to try to protect our borders. Someone has got to be nuts.
Have a lot of Obams federal judges that should be removed ,plus him
Then Put up a F**KEN wall take the fence down and shoot them off the Wall After that get rid of that Obummer suckass Judge and throw his ass over the Wall
ACLU moron ?
with all the corruption in his administration, is this really a surprise? He is just trying to keep his illegal voters happy and his cronies pockets full by using scab sub-minimum wage illegal labor…..That’s what he and his administration are about, simply milking the American public of every last dime, and destroying our way of life. Obama’s legacy as the first African-American (oh, that’s right, he’s not even an American) president will be the massive cleanup and removal of his treasonous policies for generations to come. He has destroyed the healthcare industry simply to feed his ego, balked the American taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars for his family vacations, used executive privilege to simply commit multiple acts of treason and violations of the constitution, provided aid and comfort to our enemies and known terrorist groups (more treason), allowed our diplomats and servicemen to die while he and his cabinet stood by and did nothing (Treason), and all the while he and his cronies laughed his way to the bank at our expense. The only reason I can see that he hasn’t been impeached is that either the rest of the government branches are afraid of him, or he has them in his pocket. Maybe it’s time to start really looking into the bank accounts of our “elected” officials and those appointed by the current administration and start making some bribery arrests. IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA!!! Our government isn’t ours anymore, it’s owed by corporate interests who have bought us out….TIME TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK BEFORE THE CORUPT OFFICIALS IN DC CAN SILENCE US!!!!
Tell that to families of victims who are murdered, raped, or stolen from!