Marjorie Kamys Cotera Nayda Alvarez painted this message on the roof of her home in La Rosita, Texas after receiving letters from the federal government stating that a portion of her land could be seized for the border wall.
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(Left) Gina Wisdom, Juan Mancias, Adelina Yarrito and Cecilia Gonzales (left to right) at the Eli Jackson Cemetery in San Juan. (Right) Surveyor’s stakes mark the path of future border fencing in Mission, Texas.
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Yvette Gaytan and her neighboor Naida Alvarez stands close to the Rio Grande river on Alvarez property in La Rosita, Texas. Both women have received letters from the U.S. Government regarding her land as a potential location for the Border Wall
Marjorie Kamys Cotera
Surveyor’s stakes in ground where proposed wall at the US-Mexico border is to be built in Mission, Texas.
As debate rages on border wall funding, construction is already beginning
MISSION — Krista Schlyer saw the arm of a yellow excavator emerge from the treetops in La Parida Banco National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday morning. Soon, this tract will be bisected by roughly 30 feet of concrete and steel fencing.
In the past week, the conservation photographer and writer has walked past the land multiple times and glimpsed the heavy machinery — but it was never moving. On Thursday morning, as she approached the site, she saw roughly a half dozen vehicles from local law enforcement agencies and Border Patrol surrounding the site.
“It’s really frustrating that taxpayer dollars are being used to build this,” she said. “But taxpayers can’t see the results of what they’re doing.”
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