News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Farmers fear fence will raise water costs

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau

Article Launched: 01/12/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

AUSTIN -- Plans to build about 50 miles of border fencing from El Paso to Fort Hancock could make accessing water for crops in the Lower Valley more difficult and more expensive, some farmers said Friday.

"The placing of the fence is just what's irking everybody," said Ramon Tirres Jr., who grows cotton on land near the Fabens port of entry.

U.S. Border Patrol officials in El Paso recently unveiled a proposal to build 54 miles of new fencing in the El Paso sector. Local farmers and Jesus "Chuy" Reyes, general manager of the El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, said the plans could make it harder to maintain the levees that provide water to 32,000 customers. That, in turn, could drive up rates for farmers.

"We've gone all the way to Washington and addressed it with the head of Border Patrol," said Reyes, brother of U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso.

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