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lambasted the wall project as “racist"

So they're building a wall that selectively keeps out Hispanics, including legal immigrants and visitors, while allowing non-Hispanics, including illegals, to pass through freely? That would be an impressive feat of racist engineering.

lambast (v.) lit. to beat, to lame, to strip off or remove the skin from by thrashing.

I found "lambasting" an amusing action for a group to take, if it is trying to present something else as being racist given the historical undertones of slavery. It'd be like if I said, "violent people make me so upset, I just wanna kill them". Interesting, anyway...

I think if the project should be labeled anything, it should be labeled "countryist". A fence is a natural segregator, in fact it is its essense. In this instance, however, it is separating countries not races, so hence it is "countryist".

"Landowners' rights to equal protection under the law were violated because the fence bypasses the property of some well-connected landowners, including Dallas billionaire Ray Hunt and his relatives."

What part of that did you misunderstand?
Ray Hunt ain't having that damn fence built on his property. It stops at his door. This is a stupid idea. A massively idiotic idea that will cost billions and not work.
Equal protection just might shit-can this lame ass attempt.

Eminent domain will pretty much nullify equal protection rights, I'm sure. The gov't merely needs to substantiate a greater public benefit (including economic benefit and nat'l security) by adding a fence [here] than not. That said, I really don't understand the point of a non-concurrent fence. Is the point to stop crossing traffic hot-spots, dangerous crossing places, whilly-nilly, what? AND...if you're Ray Hunt and Sharyland Business Park happens to be the only unfenced/low-fenced border stretch for a great while (thanks to $$$ and friends), aren't you worried about immigration bottle-necking over and into your investment?

I read an earlier story about this fencing issue and it said that illegals found trespassing on Hunt's golf course are arrested immediately by private security guards. Sounds like he already does a better job of border enforcement than our federal government or local law enforcement.

By the way, there has been a federal border easement law on the books since the 1800's. If memory serves me, the first 80 feet of land along our national border belongs to the federal government for the purpose of securing the border with fences, walls, and/or roads to patrol the border.