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5.Border Wall in Texas, United States
After hearing the testimonies and both sides of the boarder wall issues, I feel like everyone did not get an equal opportunity to express their thoughts and opinions. Even in the meeting, it was really rude how the commission just cut off the indigenous presentation on the impacts the wall had on their people and community, the environmental commission, homeland security and government side were never cut off even though they spoke a larger amount of time. I don’t know if it is directly or indirectly happening but the same thing that happen to start construction of the wall is happening in the meetings and hearings. To start the wall I feel the United States government simply took questions and opinions from indigenous communities just to make it seem like they had a say. The government already had a vision though and the indigenous community was not a part of them, they figured the indigenous community could be displaced and left to the side like history shows. The exact same thing appears to be happening in the meeting. Margo Tamez had little time to effectively express the problems with the wall and open the eyes to many who are unfamiliar with important native issues. The commission might not think that Tamaulipas is not of importance because it lies in Mexico, but to the indigenous community it is of great importance. To me it seemed like the Indigenous community was just pushed to the side and was not taken seriously in to consideration with the final decisions. Like I said I don’t know much of this subject but it was very apparent how the Indigenous Community was quickly cut off while many other representatives were not. This shows that both Mexican and U.S governments really see native community as inferior and once again the indigenous community finds itself struggling to keep the little land they have.
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I agree with your response to the issue of the border wall being built. It was obviously apparent how much the indigenous community was pushed to the side on the creating of this project. I think Margo did the best she could to address the problem it faces for the Apache community. I agree that she was cut off and not given a fair amount of time to speak for her and her people. I hope her community will be taken seriously in the building of this wall and I hope it is not built through their community.
I feel that this issue emphasizes many of the issues faced by Indigenous people today. When watching her testimony i couldn't believe that she was cut off in such a disrespectful manner. Obviously the government is dealing with the boarder wall issue in the same way they deal with other Indigenous issues, which is by sweeping it under the rug. Only in this case, the government "let" the Indigenous side be represented (to a certain extent) so as to ease their mind, i feel. I think that by letting the Indigenous side represent themselves somewhat that they now feel that they can proceed with their agenda. It was clear to me when watching this that the government intends to follow through with their plan regardless of how it affects the Native communities.
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