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The Great Wall of Texas
This is about a controversial border wall going up in Southern Texas, and the town's point of view on it. It's my first try at a short documentary. This is about a controversial border wall going up in Southern Texas, and the town's point of view on it. It's my first try... more
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Texas showdown
The U.S. government has a blunt message for landowners along the Mexico border: Let us on your land or we'll sue.
This week, the Justice Department began legal action against landowners and municipalities who have refused to give government surveyors access to their land. The U.S. government has a blunt message for landowners along the Mexico border: Let us on your land or we'll sue. ... more -
Homeland Security forces Texas landowners to give up land for border wall
Sen. John Cornyn said today that DHS secretary Chertoff will be taking legal action against Texas landowners who refuse to give the government access. Sen. John Cornyn said today that DHS secretary Chertoff will be taking legal action against Texas landowners who refuse to give the go... more
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The Border Fence Cuts Through My Life
Why one Texas border town REALLY doesnt like the proposed border wall
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Border Paradise Lost
In the midst of the most heated debate over immigration and border security, two towns on the Texas/Mexico border have formed a beautiful relationship with each other. But the recently approved border wall threatens to destroy all they have worked so hard for In the midst of the most heated debate over immigration and border security, two towns on the Texas/Mexico border have formed a beauti... more
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Texas mayors want deeper border
A group of mayors from border towns in the US state of Texas has called for sections of the Rio Grande to be dammed as a deterrent to illegal immigration.
The mayors want to deepen and widen the natural border with Mexico through a series of low dams or weirs across the desert flood plain.
Tens of thousands of people cross the river border illegally every month.
Critics say more people will die trying to get over the border if the river-crossing is made more dangerous.
The Rio Grande, or the Rio Bravo del Norte as it is called in Mexico, forms the border between the US state of Texas and Mexico.
It is a popular point of entry for the many thousands of illegal immigrants hoping to cross over into the US.
Many people in the border regions are unhappy about the growth of illegal immigration.
Part of the Bush administration's response has been to start the construction of hundreds of kilometres of security fence along the border, backed up by patrols and surveillance cameras.
Cost-effective
But now a group of Texan mayors, business leaders and county judges feel the approach is misguided.
They say the key to stopping illegal immigration - at least in Texas - is the Rio Grande.
They propose damming the river along several important sections in the flood plain to widen and deepen the river, making it too hazardous to cross.
They believe the measure, when taken in conjunction with improved surveillance, is much more cost-effective than the fence.
"We're only going to have one chance to secure the border and we feel that in this modern age, technology is the way to sincerely secure the border," says the group's leader, Chad Foster, the mayor of Eagle Pass.
"The fence... is going to convey a false sense of security, and the border patrol has said it will only slow down an illegal entry by three to four minutes," he added.
Some border towns on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande are also in favour of the measure, reports suggest, because they believe it will help to increase the region's water supply.
But critics of the scheme say that it will do nothing to reduce the number of people prepared to risk everything in search of a better life in the north, and a more dangerous river-crossing will simply mean that more of them will die in the attempt. A group of mayors from border towns in the US state of Texas has called for sections of the Rio Grande to be dammed as a deterrent to ... more -
Coming Soon to Current Dallas
Ok well heres a little diddy about what you can expect on Current Dallas in the next few weeks. While the proposal to build 800 miles of border fence along the US Mexican border is gaining momentum in Washington, it is doing quite the opposite in towns all up and down the Rio Grande. In fact, one Texas mayor has gone so far as to form a coalition of towns along the border to protest the building of the wall. They have even passed a resolution blatantly blasting the Bush administration and Homeland Security for moving forward with highly invasive construction plans without first consulting the individual towns along the wall's path. There are a number of border towns in Texas, each with its Mexican counterpart across the Rio Grande that has effectively created a "gray zone" in the border; These towns often share so much that the only thing preventing them from becoming a single city is the border itself. We're going down to the Rio Grande Valley to find out exactly what would happen if this wall is built and what it would mean for the thousands of residents in its path Ok well heres a little diddy about what you can expect on Current Dallas in the next few weeks. While the proposal to build 800 miles ... more
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