Border fence dispute brings Texas showdown (CNN)

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By Jeanne Meserve
CNN

EL CALABOZ, Texas (CNN) -- Eloisa Tamez says she isn't scared anymore, just determined. "I am not backing down," she said.

Tamez owns three acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border where the Department of Homeland Security would like to build a border fence. The property is a remnant of a 12,000-acre grant from Spain to her family in 1767, before the United States even existed.

"It is my history. It is my heritage," Tamez said.

This week, the Justice Department began legal action against landowners and municipalities who have refused to give government surveyors access to their land.

Tamez expects she will be sued sometime soon, but she is not intimidated.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/17/border.fence/index.html

Memo to Chertoff: DO NOT TICK OFF TEJANOS. These are people to whom honor still means something, unlike your boss and his cronies.

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1. Resistance is small, wimpy, a few words here and there, then apathetic surrender

That's how the whole ball of wax (our democracy) will go.

http://notexasborderwall.com/