More than dividing Mexico from the U.S. the new border fence plan is dividing Brownsville, Texas neighbors from one another. And border Mayors are working on a lawsuit against the Bush Administration.
Meanwhile, Native Americans maintain that, by cutting across their sacred sites, the border wall is a violation of their rights under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978.
Unfortunately for the Tiguas, and everyone else in American who values the rule of law, Chertoff used the power given to him in the Real ID Act to waive 36 federal laws including the American Indian Religious Freedoms Act. In building the border wall, ostensibly to stop people from breaking the law to enter the United States, Chertoff has suspended the law. The only reason to waive laws is because he knows that the wall's construction will violate those laws.
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