The Feminist Texican

via Texas Observer

Melissa del Bosque has a terrific article up at Texas Observer about how the government is taking away land and property from homeowners and the University of Texas at Brownsville (who depends on federal funding) to build the border fence in the Rio Grande Valley.  Meanwhile the wealthy surrounding areas go untouched:

[Eloisa] Tamez, a nursing director at the University of Texas at Brownsville, is one of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron County. Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930s, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.

Now Homeland Security wants to put an 18-foot steel and concrete wall through what remains [a whole three acres].

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