As we have noted in previous posts, opposition has increased in border communities to the planner border wall despite plans to start its construction this autumn. Though U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff promised that the government would be open to feedback from local communities, he did not “rule out” the possibility of using powers of eminent domain to seize land for the barrier’s construction.
Image- Otley Community Council (2004 photo of a weir in the town of
Sources- Brownsville Herald, The Latin Americanist, KTLV, Reuters
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