The Texas town fighting back against Trump's border wall.
Today, most of the barriers Trump claims to have built have merely replaced fencing that was previously installed by his predecessors. Furthermore, Americans - not Mexicans - are footing the bill.Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, was charged with fraud for allegedly fleecing thousands of well-meaning donorsBut even as the wall was gradually constructed over the years, Laredo and its citizens had largely been left untouched — until now.
Boiled down, the lawsuit argues that Trump’s policy effectively creates a “second class” of US citizen who can have their land seized by the government based on “white nationalist motives”. As the fifth longest river system in North America, the basin is both a wildlife corridor for deer, cattle and horses, and a lifeblood for the communities surrounding it.
They even showed her a map, with a cross-section of the area where they wanted the right of entry to her riverside property, which spans about 173 acres, and tried to get her to sign it over immediately. Hudak also put out a press release this week, noted that border patrol agents had managed to stop a human smuggling attempt at a checkpoint on Interstate 35, north of Laredo. Fifty-two people were discovered hidden in a trailer, including foreign nationals from Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador and Guatemala.Zapata County council member Mercurio Martinez doesn’t doubt that there are sections of the community that support a steel barrier being built.
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