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Perhaps no one told Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, even though he works in the Bush White House, that you don't mess with Texas. Why else would he be pushing so hard to build a border fence that folks in the Lone Star State don't want, so much so that a group of South Texas leaders have now hauled him into court...
...Texas Border Coalition, which includes just about every mayor and local Chamber of Commerce in the 1,200-mile Rio Grande Valley, accuses Chertoff of seizing land to build the fence without first negotiating a fair price. TBC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., also alleges that the Department of Homeland Security may be favoring wealthy landowners by routing the fence away from their property. "I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, the coalition chairman, says in the suit...
...Elsewhere along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, National Guard teams and private contractors have built more than 300 miles of new fencing in the past year with little official complaint from local citizens. Along big stretches of the Arizona border, for example, the fence crosses uninhabited desert lands already owned by the federal government...
...plans to fence 70 miles of the Texas border - mainly the populated stretches, where immigrants and smugglers can reach safe-houses or catch a ride north within minutes of crossing - have stirred up serious opposition. South Texans are happy with the soft barrier provided by nature - the Rio Grande - and enjoy a long history of easy commerce from one side of the border to the other and back again. In other words, Tex-Mex is more than a style of cooking down there - it's an entire culture, and what looks like a bright line on the map is actually...
...cost of success appears to have been too much for several local Mexican police chiefs, who, according to U.S. officials, have recently shown up at U.S. border checkpoints requesting political asylum in the U.S. And they clearly have reason to be fearful: Already, 10 of the 17 police officers named on a list nailed by narcos to the door of the town hall in the border town of Juarez in January have been murdered...