Not all border towns oppose a fence
Plenty of border people have their asses in an uproar over the "fence." I understand a lot of it, some I don't. But don't think every town and locality is opposed.
This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas.
Unlike other Texas cities along the Mexican border, Del Rio actually welcomes the 15-foot-high steel wall the U.S. government wants to build against illegal immigrants.
Other cities have denounced the barrier as a waste of money, an eyesore, a giveback of hard-won American soil and an insult to Mexico. They have barred government surveyors from setting foot on city property, refused to sell land to Washington, or dug in their heels over the selling price.
But Del Rio's City Council voted unanimously last month to sell 70 acres to the Department of Homeland Security for $1.2 million. The mayor said the city considers itself lucky; it bought the land decades ago for $90,000 and regards it as useless.
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