Posted on 10/21/2008 5:02:01 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
DALLAS — A fence along the U.S.-Mexico border would trample on human rights and its construction should be halted, a group from the University of Texas will contend during the first international hearing on the issue Wednesday. Several students and faculty will present their concerns during the hearing in Washington before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is part of the Organization of American States.
The university group wants the commission to recommend stopping the construction of 670 miles of barriers that were approved by Congress in an effort to stem illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
"I think this hearing is the moment when the border wall issue becomes an international human rights issue," said Denise Gilman, a professor who oversees the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law... A representative from the U.S. can respond to the group's contentions during the hearing, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling said the agency will not.... The UT group plans to urge the commission to request more detailed information about the project from the U.S. government. Requests by the university group to the federal government for details on the plan have yet to be answered even though they were made in April under the Freedom of Information Act, Gilman said...
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T.U. is a hellhole depository of liberal communistas.
Shame we can build Big Inch and Little Inch in 9 months in 1943 to run from Brownsville to Newark in 1943, but in 7 years after 9/11, we as a country, cannot build 1700 miles of fencing......no one ion the LSNM ever mentions that fact.
Morons. How did everything in this world become a human rights issue?
Building a fence around Washington DC isn’t a bad idea. LOL
We should still build a militarized fence at the Mexican border
Why would anyone think tha entering a country illegally has any "human rights" status at all? And why would our governemnt give any recognition to a "Commission on Human Rights" that wants to consider tha possibility? This should be ignored as a non-issue ... but it won't be.
The 700 miles of the Alaska Pipeline was built in 3 years start to finish, under conditions markedly worse than the SW border (e.g., -50F temps, months of no sunlight, 90F++ summer days, 3 mountain ranges, etc)
Bush and McCain made it a human rights issue, while ignoring the national security of the U.S.
That is an excellent comparison, I'm saving that. Good one. And remember all the caterwaulling over that? In retrospect, hilarious, they were proven WRONG on EVERY point.
How must it be to go through life always wrong? But yet occupy seats of power! Something is wrong with this picture...
Right now we have about 350+ miles of fence built, more toward the West coast and less the nearer you get to Brownsville (and Eagle Pass.) I don’t think they are planning to build 1,700 miles of fence. The last I read it was 670 miles where the Border Patrol said it would do the most good. But we can’t just build a fence, we need more BP agents to catch ‘em, we need more electronic detection and we need more workplace policing. We need to cut off the benefits faucet and end the anchor baby scandal. The fence should have a big sign on it that says, “No illegals, no parasites.”
It is worse than that. This group of lawyers-in-training is claiming that any attempt to enforce the border whatsoever is a violation of some kind of universal human rights to immigrate here. I wish just once one of the idiot reporters would ask them what percentage of the Mexican population should be allowed to move to our country before we say enough.
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