SubscribeBorder fence dispute brings Texas showdown
January 18, 2008
“Eloisa Tamez said she isn’t scared anymore, just determined. “I am not backing down,” she said.
Tamez owns three acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border where the Department of Homeland Security would like to build a border fence. The property is a remnant of a 12,000-acre grant from Spain to her family in 1767, before the United States even existed.
“It is my history. It is my heritage,” Tamez said. This week, the Justice Department began legal action against landowners and municipalities who have refused to give government surveyors access to their land.” (CNN)
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I can understand Eloisa but if we all decided to stop progress and protection of our USA where would we be today. We are not living in yesteryear. I feel this could also apply to racial problems as well. Some of the things that happened years ago will always affect us in different ways but those of us living now did not create that situation and there can be no resititution because the responsible people who caused those horrible things are DEAD AND GONE and we are now living in a new world. My grandmother couldn’t vote because she was a woman but it doesn’t mean I have to get out on the streets, TVs, magazines, treat men like dirt, etc and hold the now people responsible. We can’t give restitution for something we people now did not create. FORGET IT, GROW UP, STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. Our world now is so different and everyone has opportunities. This is the only way to move forward. LOVE, LIVE, GROW and SHARE together for a much better world in the future. Let our past history show us wherein we may have failed. We learn from mistakes. It is time to make a difference for the USA and our security. PLEAAAASE!!!!!