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.
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Well!….Tell this judge to go to the border and face the invasion perpetrated by his mentor OBAMA, and tell our armed boys on the border who are now protecting our sovereignty they are wrong. I doubt he will have the guts to do this. RACISM is not the issue nor a talking point (except for Obama). Our freedom is the issue! Obama and this, so-called judge, have grossly misinterpreted the statement on the Statue of Liberty. We receive anyone who is willing to work hard and earn the freedom that we as Americans want to share.
I think it’s great that we allow them in, why can’t they do it legally. What about us? If we go there we end up in prison or killed. No chance for anything no “free” anything. Why do we have to break our backs working to provide for our own families and but for one pay check we are done, no home no nothing, Now we are asked to pay for them, all of them. Yes some NOT ALL work very hard and pay taxes, they should if they want to be here, there are more that come here that are criminals. As far as the Americans that think working certain jobs are beneath them, they were raised that way as a matter of fact because of liberal thinking we are raising a generation that thinks they are deserving of everything and have to work for nothing that we owe them everything, I think we should ship them to Mexico, let’s see if the remaining Mexican people will work harder to pay for those Americans, let’s see if they appreciate them expecting to be taken care of, illegally by the way, and let’s see how those lazy ass Americans feel when they are treated like c**p and there are no bleeding hearts to give them everything they think they are entitled to.I am tired of being called a racist just because I believe in the laws of this country, that I believe in hard work, that I think if you succeed that you deserve to enjoy the fruits of your labor. (I know, this land was the Indians before us, as much of a disgrace as it was it is ours now). If they want freedom why do they not fight for it in their own country or are they wanting to just do the same to us as our ancestors did to the Indians?, why are we expected to give our freedoms away? STOP CALLING ME A RACIST….. My family and I are not rich let the people who are calling us racist and opening our boarders, let them pay for these illegals……… Or better yet turn them back, they would turn us back without question or concern that or they would shoot us where we stood. A novel I know, but I am tired of it, just tired.
Total BS, Let this STUPID Judge pay all the costs of every Illegal that crosses then!! Can’t fix STUPID!!
another stupid judge…thought they were supposed to uphold the law…!
IT IS OUR DAMNED BORDER. IT SHOULD BE CLOSED. THOSE CROSSING SHOUD BE SHOT DEAD ON SITE AND LEFT TO ROT ON THE GROUND FOR THE BUZZARDS TO EAT. G******N THAT ASS OF A JUDGE.
who gives a $#%&!@* ? $#%&!@* that judge !!!!
Is this the judge Wendy Davis wants sent to the border?
Damn fence should be electrified !!!
WE have enough of mexicos poorest now !!!