Teachers’ 9-day border walk to protest lawsuits, divided communities
Protesters against the Texas-Mexico http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3221 will launch a nine-day march at the Rio Grande today, starting at Roma, Texas, and ending in Brownsville.
The 115-mile march is organized in part by schoolteachers at U.S. border schools.
“The wall represents the militarization of the border, and the border is my home,” said John Moore, an 8th-grade English teacher in Brownsville. “The border is a region, rather than a line and, culturally, there are more similarities between http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2580 and Matamoros, than Brownsville and Dallas.”
In 2006, in efforts to increase border security, Congress mandated the construction of 670 miles of single and double fencing at strategic locations across the Southwestern border.That includes 180 miles in Texas, and several segments from Rio Grande City to the Gulf of Mexico.