December 7, 2007
Texas Colleges Argue That a Border Fence Would Divide a Community
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College filed a resolution last week opposing the U.S. government's plans to erect 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border — a barrier they say could disrupt the border institutions and undermine their efforts to unite communities on opposite sides of the Rio Grande.
The fence is intended to slow illegal immigration and drug smuggling along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S. Department of
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