U.S. Leaves Holes in Texas-Mexico Border Wall

From DemocracyNow.org
The Department of Homeland Security is coming under criticism over where it’s building a new border wall between Texas and Mexico. According to the Texas Observer, the Bush administration is suing many poor landowners along the border in an effort to force them to give up property for the eighteen-foot steel and concrete wall. But at the same the time, the Department of Homeland Security is leaving large gaps in the wall to avoid building the wall on the property of wealthy residents. In the small town of Granjeno, the wall abruptly ends at the property of Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt, whose family runs Hunt Oil. Hunt is a close friend of President Bush and serves on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.