They're not going down without a fight!

[countryjake]

"I'm not going down without a fight," says Eloisa Tamez, whose property -- in her family since 1767 -- would be bisected by the proposed fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.


Border fence would slice through private property
Families on U.S.- Mexico Line Fighting Plan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021503303.html?nav=hcmodule

By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 16, 2008

EL CALABOZ, Tex. -- In the 240 years since the Spanish Crown granted Eloisa Tamez's colonial ancestors title to this flat, grassy expanse along the Rio Grande's northern bank, her family has steadily lost its holdings to the Mexican War of Independence, the U.S. annexation of Texas and the Great Depression.

Now Tamez faces what could prove the final blow: The Department of Homeland Security has proposed building a section of the U.S-Mexico border fence mandated by Congress directly through the last three acres of the family's original 12,000-acre tract.

But the 72-year-old nursing professor has a message for any government officials who expect her to leave quietly. "I'm not going down without a fight," Tamez said, her dark eyes narrowing as she gazed beyond her back yard toward a field where she used to pick tomatoes as a child. "My father, my grandfather and my great-grandfather farmed this land. This is the land that gave me my life and my spirit. . . . I will fight this all the way."

Across South Texas, dozens of landowners and municipal leaders are making similar vows, mounting a concerted effort to prevent government surveyors from even examining their properties, let alone erecting the fence on them...

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Good for her.

The Rio Grande is the boundary. If Fatherland Security wants to seal off the border, let 'em build their friggin' Maginot Line in the middle of the river.

[Solly Mack]

2. I wish for her and all the rest the very best!!

[KharmaTrain]

3. And A Fence Will Stop Whom???

The old line about fences apply here...it's usually those that put them up that end up getting penned in.

So they think that a fence will stop someone finding a way into this country? It'll just create more opportunities. Most "illegals" enter through the front doors...expired visas and green cards.

Good for those folks on the border...they know what's really going on and aren't gonna be pawns in a right wing wedge issue game.

BTW...didn't Olbermann report that the fence avoided the south texas property of a member of the Hunt family...big BFEE bankrollers???

[countryjake]

4. Yes, the Hunt Dynasty doesn't seem affected by any wall intrusions...

Holes in the Wall
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2688

Also this:

Border Fence To Bypass Property Of Wealthy Oilman Who Donated $35 Million To Bush Library
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/19/hunt-border-fence

[Maestro]

5. This story definitely needs more attention.

The whole story just disgusts me and is representative of the lack of compassion that the government has for its people.

[DemoTex]

6. SHE is 72????

I think I know where Ponce de Leon should have looked for his Fountain of Youth!

[countryjake]

7. Another angle...

Holes in the Wall
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2688

[DemoTex]

8. She is a beautiful woman from both angles!

And thanks for the link to the T.O.! I need to renew my subscription to that great publication immediately!