Texas Civil Rights Project launches anti-border wall construction mail campaign
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The Texas Civil Rights Project started a mail campaign in hopes to get President-Elect Joe Biden to commit to stopping border wall construction.
So far, the organization has signed up 5,000 people to send postcards to Biden, reminding him of his pledge to do just that.
Happening now: #RGV community organizers are projecting a message over the McAllen Federal Courthouse: In this court of injustice, hate rules. #NoBorderWall. The critique is a response to the decisions made there that allowed Trump to take border residents land for the wall. pic.twitter.com/x9xWYlPIII
Texas Republicans Fanned the Flames of Insurrection Long Before January 6
It’s not just Ted Cruz. For years, Texas Republicans have fueled the toxic politics that led extremists to storm the Capitol.
This file photo from Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021, shows Trump supporters swarming the Capitol, as Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden s victory. AP Photo/John Minchillo
It’s not just Ted Cruz. For years, Texas Republicans have fueled the toxic politics that led extremists to storm the Capitol.
This file photo from Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021, shows Trump supporters swarming the Capitol, as Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden s victory. AP Photo/John Minchillo
Hundreds of landowners and 1,000s of migrants left in wake of border wall debate
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Two years ago, the debate literally showed up in Nayda Alvarez s backyard.
She saw a two person survey crew measuring her land to see where the wall would be built, and tells ABC13 one of them told her, They re going to build the wall right here.
Alvarez doesn t own a huge Texas ranch. Her family owns a little more than eight acres right on the Rio Grande in the city west of McAllen.
Standing in her backyard, she told ABC13 that the proposed route of the wall would be 20 feet from her back door and on top of her backyard fence.
A subdued Trump highlights immigration policies at border
President Donald Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Alamo, Texas, Jan. 12, 2021. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
By Rhina Guidos • Catholic News Service • Posted January 14, 2021
It was the promise that propelled him to the presidency, so it was unusual to see President Donald Trump relatively subdued about it, as he stood just feet away Jan. 12 from the border wall he said he promised supporters he’d build.
With part of the structure looming in the background, he touted his administration’s immigration policies, but also zigzagged between them and a defense of the role he is accused of playing in a Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five dead.
Update at 4:30 p.m.
Speaking near Alamo, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, President Donald Trump addressed upcoming attempts to potentially remove him from office during the last 11 days of his presidency. Trump called the conversations about impeachment taking place in Congress a hoax and revived claims of being the target of a witch hunt. Free speech is under assault like never before. The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration as the expression goes, Be careful what you wish for, he said.
Trump’s not taking responsibility for his role in last week’s violence. He referred to the group of his supporters who stormed the capitol last Wednesday as “a mob” a sharp contrast to statements he made while the insurrection was happening. Then, he told those people “we love you.”