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Federal Judge Backs People-Powered We Build The Wall, Inc. – Shreds Federal Lawyers For IBCW
Gateway Pundit via Gates of ViennaWe Build the Wall, Inc., a nonprofit organization founded by triple amputee veteran Brian Kolfage, is gearing up to build a second portion of wall along the U.S. Mexico border on private land in Mission, Texas and the "deep state" International Boundary and Water Commission is, again, relentlessly doing everything to sabotage the project. The border wall, IBCW claims, would violate the United States’ 1970 international water treaty with Mexico by causing flooding that would alter the course of the international waterway and destruct the shoreline. In response, U.S. District Judge Randy Crane issued a restraining or mandating We Build the Wall suspend construction and ordered the government to disclose the results of a hydrology study that would substantiate its unfounded charges. During a hearing Thursday at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen, U.S. Attorney E. Paxton Warner claimed the Federal Emergency Management Agency has already conducted a mapping study that confirms the construction of a border wall would cause catastrophic environmental damage on the river banks by utilizing expensive state of the art Light Detection and Ranging equipment, also known as LIDAR. Yet, FEMA claimed has declined to provide its study to IBCW, Warner admitted. Judge Crane shot back, chiding the government attorneys. "If you can’t get it then how do you expect a private citizen to have access to it?" he asked Warner. "I’m not for making people jump through hoops just to jump through hoops. That seems petty." We Build The Wall should conduct its own comprehensive hydrology report, rather than hassle FEMA with turning over its study, U.S. Attorney Daniel Hu argued. The non-profit is planning to build a wall that costs upwards of $20 million dollars and should be able to afford LIDAR because it "costs only about $2,000 per square mile analysis," he said. Until scientific evidence is produced proving the wall would generate flooding and environmental hazard, the government’s lawsuit is meritless, Crane retorted, noting he would likely resort to issuing a court order to obtain FEMA’s LIDAR study. "Your role here is to make sure someone who is building in the floodplain is in compliance with federal laws," he told the federal prosecutors. "You aren’t for one side or the other. If you have this answer then find out as soon as possible." Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-14 |
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