Turf war or not. Three mayors have vowed to fight the government’s fence building along the border. I like the one comment. “Ok, build the fence north of the town.”

[Corruption Chronicles]

The mayors of at least three U.S. cities along the Mexican border are blocking the federal government’s plan to build a fence by denying workers access to land in their municipalities.

Claiming that a fence will hurt the cross-border economy and send the wrong message to their Mexican neighbors, the mayors of Brownsville, Del Rio and El Paso Texas have refused to allow federal employees to enter city property and begin surveys as well as other preliminary work on the fence.

The mayors assure that they are exercising their rights because they say it’s their property. All have vowed to make it difficult for government workers to do their job of securing the border, including the possibility of taking legal action.

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