Plan for border fence puts U.S. business on Mexico side
Well, you can't say the feds aren't getting serious about border enforcement. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is about to "deport" an entire U.S. business. Plans for the fence the feds are building along the Texas/Mexican border will slice the Fort Brown Memorial Golf Course in Brownsville off from the rest of the U.S., locating it onto the Mexican side.
The course is owned by the University of Texas, and will be joined in exile by a Brownsville city park and bird sanctuary that are also located in a tricky bend of the Rio Grande riverbed. These Google Maps images suggest how the rights and property of American citizens ended up getting subordinated to the Department of Homeland Security's desire to build a more or less straight wall:
A spokesman for the golf course says there is a proposal to put a gate in the fence.
KNX 1070 radio has the story, but many questions remain unanswered.
Will golfers need passports?
Will Fort Brown still have to pay state taxes?
Will President George Bush be able to use the new as a holding site for prisoners of war by claiming it's not technically in the U.S.?
Yet another reason that we should not build the wall.
Of course, the fact that it will not stop anyone - the Border Patrol says the wall only slows crossers by 5 minutes, and the Congressional Research Service found that the wall in San Diego had "no discernible impact" on the number of people entering the US - is probably a better reason. The wall will also destroy homes and wildlife refuges. It will drive endangered species to extinction. It will cost upwards of $46 billion to build and maintain.
The border wall is nothing more than a political prop. Duncan Hunter likes to have it as a backdrop for his commercials. The fact that it has no effect on immigration or national security is irrelevant to him.
Posted by: no border wall | May 08, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Do like the Israelis an build it several miles inside "enemy" territory. Then, hundreds of golf courses can be built on confiscated Mexican land!
Posted by: Snappy | May 11, 2008 at 01:41 PM