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
Remember when Obama appointed Judges had Common Sense? Me neither!
Notice how the corrugations are horizontal for easier climbing. Are illegals now a minority to be given equal protection under our laws?
As far as I am concerned obammy and his personal judge are the one’s that are so very RACIST. obammy has all the races against each other. He has divided this country to what it is now. It is not very good. A mad man that hates the USA is doing everything he can to destroy it. WELL WE WILL FIGHT IT.
CLOSE BORDERS. WOULD SAVE, MANY, LIVES. IN UNITED STATES. THINK IT IS RIGHT. AMEN.
How can a structure be “Racist”?
Obama – Christel
No it not…
BS…They voted to build it and they sure as hell better….People are tired of all their BS
Then he wouldn’t have any voters for the democratic party.
This c**p is why the November elections are so important to the future of our country. If Obama can continue to appoint idiotic activist judges like this, our Constitution will be shredded. We have got to get enough conservative votes in the Senate to block his nominees and his socialist agenda.