Posted on 02/07/2009 7:02:40 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
McALLEN, Texas — The Department of Homeland Security has offered a compromise to Brownsville that would erect a temporary border fence in its downtown until a planned riverwalk project moves ahead with a permanent combined levee-border wall, the city said Friday.
If the proposal, the product of more than a year of negotiations, is approved, it would be a notable thaw in the government's deadlock with a city that has presented some of the fiercest opposition to the border fence.
Brownsville Mayor Pay Ahumada once called the government's short-lived proposal to offer property owners money for access to survey their land for the fence "blood money." And when U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, was booed at a border fence discussion in the city, he snapped back that if people in Brownsville oppose the fence, they should build it around the north side of the border city — in effect, leaving the city on the Mexican side of the fence.
The city commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing and vote Thursday on the proposal that has been months in the making.
Ahumada, who was traveling in Mexico Friday and did not immediately return a call to his cell phone, opposed a similar compromise proposal in July.
The city commission voted to table the offer and it was never taken up again. But Ahumada said at the time he did not want a fence under any circumstances.
Peter Goodman, Brownsville's Historic Downtown District director, said the proposal has improved for the city since last summer, but he believes the mayor remains opposed.
"It's my understanding that he still feels the same way," Goodman said.
After hours calls to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is the part of Homeland Security overseeing the border fence project, were not....
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Lord help us if the U.S. Government cannot use eminent domain to build a border fence in order to protect THE ENTIRE 300 MILLION AMERICANS LIVING HERE, yet some podunk city in Connecticut can use eminent domain successfully for the sake of economic development “to benefit” a town of 20,000.
We are truly screwed.
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Wonder how many of them are in the pay of the Mexican drug gangs?
“Wonder how many of them are in the pay of the Mexican drug gangs? “
PRECISELY!
And then we have them laughing as they cut through - However, design criteria require that, at a minimum, the fence must be 16 feet high and 3 to 6 feet below ground, capable of withstanding a crash of a 10,000-pound (gross weight) vehicle traveling at 40 miles per hour, capable of withstanding vandalism, cutting or penetrating; semi-transparent, as dictated by operational need, designed to survive extreme climate changes, able to reduce any minimal impacts on small animal movement, not impede the natural flow of water; and be aesthetically pleasing.
http://www.latinalista.net/palabrafinal/2007/09/specs_for_texasmexico_border_fence_final.html
KSEV’s Edd Hendee on FOX NC with Glenn Beck
ABOUT DISORDER ON THE BORDER
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3541270&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/glennbeck/
ping
So Tom called the mayor of Brownsville out for the buyed-out punk for Mexico he is. Mayor didn’t bother to deny it. Climate changes my ass - this guy is another bought off politician who has no loyalty to our nation while he’s in office to insure organized criminals get their way.
Pay Ahumada, backtrack my name and face me for calling you a traitorous scumbag. Please.
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