Texas-Mexico Border Wall

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    Freedom of Information Act Request Letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    (2008-04-11) Gilman, Denise
    I am seeking the requested information in order to conduct research and writing on the plans for construction of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border with the goal of informing the public, United States policymakers and international organizations, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, about the process. The information is urgently needed to inform the public and policymakers concerning the United States government's activities in relation to planning and construction of a border wall on the Texas/Mexico border, because the government has repeatedly indicated its intent to carry out the construction in the coming months of this year, specifically by October 2008.
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    Federal Agencies Have Stymied Access to Record Showing Impact of Texas-Mexico Border Wall
    (2009-03-11) Public Citizen
    Federal officials are illegally withholding documents that would allow the public to determine the full impact of the 700 miles of fence being built along the Texas-Mexico border, Public Citizen argued in a suit filed in U.S. district court today on behalf of a member of the University of Texas (UT) Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall.
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    FOIA Documents Released by the Army Corps of Engineers
    (2008-06-27) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    "You are hereby notified that your offer submitted in response to Solicitation No. ELPUR-08-R-0004 is accepted in the amount of $31,235,828.00."
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    FOIA Documents Released by the DHS
    (2009) United States Government: Department of Homeland Security
    Freedom of Information Act documents released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security following the request made by Denise Gilman of the UT-Austin School of Law.
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    FOIA Documents Released by the U.S. Army
    (2009-02-19) United States Government: Department of the Army
    This response replies to the real estate, plat and property owner information portion of Item 2 of your amended Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated May 12, 2008, addressed to the Fort Worth District.
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    Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
    (2009-03-11) Rosenbaum, Adina; Gilman, Denise
    This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. 552, to compel the production of records concerning the construction of a Texas-Mexico border wall as part of the Department of Homeland Security's implementation of the Secure Border Initiative. The border wall plan has garnered widespread public and media interest, and the requested documents would shed light on the agency's planned locations for constructing border wall segments, criteria for deciding those locations, and assessments of potential impacts on various communities along the border.
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    Freedom of Information Act Documentation
    (2008) United States Government
    This collection of documents was released by the U.S. Government to the University of Texas at Austin School of Law following the Freedom of Information Act request made by Denise Gilman.
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    Freedom of Information Act Request Letter
    (2008-04-11) Gilman, Denise
    I am seeking the requested information in order to conduct research and writing on the plans for construction of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border with the goal of informing the public, United States policymakers and international organizations, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, about the process. The information is urgently needed to inform the public and policymakers concerning the United States government's activities in relation to planning and construction of a border wall on the Texas/Mexico border, because the government has repeatedly indicated its intent to carry out the construction in the coming months of this year, specifically by October 2008.
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    Video of the Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall Hearing before the IAC
    (Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2008-10) The Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall
    Video of the IAC Hearing on Human Rights and the Border Wall in which members of the UT Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall testified before the Commission.
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    University of Texas Working Group to Testify on Human Rights Impacts of the Texas/Mexico Border Wall
    (Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2008-10-16) Gilman, Denise; Dulitzky, Ariel; Engle, Karen
    In response to its claim that the Texas-Mexico border wall violates human rights law, the University of Texas Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall was granted a general hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the “Commission”). The Commission, comprised of seven independent jurists from across the Americas and the Caribbean, is the body of the inter-governmental Organization of American States (“OAS”) responsible for monitoring and ensuring respect for human rights in the Americas, including in the United States. The public hearing will be held from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on October 22, 2008 in the Commission’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and simultaneously webcast to a global audience through the OAS website.
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    UT-Austin School of Law Confirmation of Attendance to IAC Hearing on the Texas/Mexico Border Wall
    (The Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall, 2008-10-07) Gilman, Denise
    I am pleased to write in response to the letter directed to me by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the "Commission") on September 22, 2008 granting our request for a hearing to address the human rights violations implicated in the construction by the United States of a border wall on the Texas/Mexico border. I am very pleased to confirm the attendance of the University of Texas Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall ("Working Group") at the hearing on this issue that the Commission has scheduled for October 22, 2008.
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    U.S. Department of Homeland Security response to IAC inquiries
    (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2009-01-14) Pagan, David
    At the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing of October 22, 2008, a series of inquiries were made of the United States Government ("government") regarding the planning processes used for the installation of border security of border security fencing along the southern border of the United States. As was stated during the government's oral presentation, many of these matters are the subject of current litigation in the federal courts of the United States. Accordingly, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is restrained in its ability to respond. Please find CBP's written answers to the Commission's inquiries below:
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    IACHR Concludes its 133rd Period of Sessions
    (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 2008-10-31) Rivero, María Isabel
    The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) held its 133rd regular period of sessions from October 15 to 31, 2008. During the sessions, the Commission approved reports on cases and individual petitions, and held 57 hearings and 34 working meetings.
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    IAC Reply re: General Hearing on the Texas/Mexico Border Wall
    (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 2008-09-22) Lopez-Garelli, Mario
    I am pleased to address you concerning your note of August 27, 2008, in which you express your interest in attending a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights during its 133rd ordinary period of sessions to address mattersrelating to the general situation on the Texas/Mexico Border Wall in United States.
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    Request for General Hearing on the Texas/Mexico Border Wall
    (2008-08-27) Gilman, Denise
    I am writing to respectfully request that you schedule, during the 133rd period of sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the "Commission"), a general hearing on the human rights violations implicated in the construction by the United States of a border wall on the Texas/Mexico border. I am making this request in the name of the University of Texas Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall, a multi-disciplinary collective of faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin, which has collaborated with individuals and communities affected by the border wall and Environmental Sciences faculty at the University of Texas at Brownsville, to highlight the human rights violations committed by the United States through planned construction of the wall. A list of working group members is attached to this request.
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    The Path to Settlement between University of Texas Brownsville and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (2008-10-22) Garcia, Juliet V.
    As president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, which sits adjacent to the border with mexico, I have spent the past eighteen months responding to plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to divide our campus with an 18-feet-high fence. I have outlined in the attached document the long and difficult battle we faced, as well as the solution upon which we ultimately agreed. I believe our experience demonstrates that reasonable alternatives exist to the construction of the fence proposed by the government. Indeed, the federal judge who presided over our case proposed that our original settlement with DHS, which required DHS to consult with the university to reach a mutually agreed-upon solution, be used as a model for other property owners along the border.
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    Kickapoo Statement
    (The Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall, 2008-10) Anico, Eric
    I, Eric Anico, a member of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, hereby make this statement of my opposition to the border wall because it will violate the rights of our tribal members in a number of ways.
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    Obstructing Human Rights: The Texas-Mexico Border Wall
    (The Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall, 2008-06) The Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall
    The Working Group submits these briefing papers to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the “Commission”) with the request that the Commission consider the violations of human rights taking place through the construction of walls along the Texas/Mexico border. These briefing papers focus on the human rights impact of border wall construction on the Texas/Mexico border, although wall segments also have been and will be built along the border between Mexico and the states of California, New Mexico and Arizona. These briefing papers focus on the Texas/Mexico border because: 1) the Working Group enjoys a unique connection to the residents of Texas and the Texas/Mexico border region; 2) the construction of border fencing in Texas presents issues involving the public taking of private land that are not present in the other states where the majority of property along the border is federal land; and 3) the next phase of border wall construction will take place predominantly in Texas. The papers focus most heavily on the area along the Texas/Mexico border known as the Rio Grande Valley, which is located at the southernmost tip of Texas. Much of the border wall construction planned for Texas is scheduled to take place in this area, and residents of this area were the first to contact the University of Texas regarding the severe impact that the border wall will have on their human rights. The papers do nonetheless address border wall construction in other areas of Texas where important human rights issues are raised, particularly in relation to the indigenous communities that live in western Texas.
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    Obstructing Human Rights: The Texas-Mexico Border Wall
    (The Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall, 2008-06) Gilman, Denise
    The Working Group submits these briefing papers to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the “Commission”) with the request that the Commission consider the violations of human rights taking place through the construction of walls along the Texas/Mexico border. These briefing papers focus on the human rights impact of border wall construction on the Texas/Mexico border, although wall segments also have been and will be built along the border between Mexico and the states of California, New Mexico and Arizona. These briefing papers focus on the Texas/Mexico border because: 1) the Working Group enjoys a unique connection to the residents of Texas and the Texas/Mexico border region; 2) the construction of border fencing in Texas presents issues involving the public taking of private land that are not present in the other states where the majority of property along the border is federal land; and 3) the next phase of border wall construction will take place predominantly in Texas. The papers focus most heavily on the area along the Texas/Mexico border known as the Rio Grande Valley, which is located at the southernmost tip of Texas. Much of the border wall construction planned for Texas is scheduled to take place in this area, and residents of this area were the first to contact the University of Texas regarding the severe impact that the border wall will have on their human rights. The papers do nonetheless address border wall construction in other areas of Texas where important human rights issues are raised, particularly in relation to the indigenous communities that live in western Texas.
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    Freedom of Information Act Request Letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
    (2008-04-11) Gilman, Denise
    Letter from Denise Gilman, Clinical Professor at the University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic, to Mr. Mark Hanson, Acting Freedom of Information Act Director requesting U.S. Customs and Border Protection information on the construction of a wall on the Texas/Mexico border in relation to the Secure Fence Act of 2006.