Bushes Friend

[Jokerswild]

Apparently it's good to be George Bushes friend just don't expect anything good if you don't have a ton of money to donate to him. Ray L. Hunt doesn't have to have a border fence on his property but his neighbors are being harassed and having lawsuits filed by the government for not wanting the fence on their property.

Think Progress » Border Fence To Bypass Property Of Wealthy Oilman Who Donated $35 Million To Bush Library

[screwballl]

I am doing some digging because there is just too much of a liberal twist there to be 100% true.

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I am doing some digging because there is just too much of a liberal twist there to be 100% true.

LMAO go ahead and dig away.

[gvblake22]

Lemme know if you turn anything up there screwballl. But for now, I'll feel resentment and disapproval for the DHS and what the article said is happening with the fence.

[Tech Geek Deluxe]

Hey the Agenda is "Not" to have closed borders anyways. So the "in crowd" talk and decide to "Not do" what they aren't planning on doing anyway ... so what?

"Heya George ... hows the wife ... really had fun last time you were over and we played a few rounds of golf ... By the way Ol' skull and bones buddy ... I know the whole fence thingy is a ruse ... so would you mind just passin' us by with the ol border fence ... I'm thinkin that 35 Mil gives me the right ... ya think?" ... Oh and George mebucko ... I sure am in favor of drilling in the fields just over the border ... you know ... the one that is going asta-la-byby with our trilateral agenda ... and yeah ... that 35Mil was in good faith ... bones handshake ... wink ... right George?

Just how much do you think the oil fields in Mexico are worth ... and just who do you think will be first on the list for them?

Welcome to politics and greasing palms.

[Jokerswild]

Yea this goes on with every politician no matter what party. Got to pay back them favors.

[Tech Geek Deluxe]

Yup. What I don't like is that Communist China has been financial supporters of some sleazy Dems for a long time and through many avenues.

[screwballl]

looking through a few things.... apparently part of his 6000 acre property actually is attached to a mexican businessman's property across the border

Over the years, Hunt has transformed his 6,000-acre property, called the Sharyland Plantation, from acres of onions and vegetables into swathes of exclusive, gated communities where houses sell from $650,000 to $1 million and residents enjoy golf courses, elementary schools, and a sports park. The plantation contains an 1,800-acre business park and Sharyland Utilities, run by Hunt’s son Hunter, which delivers electricity to plantation residents and Mexican factories.
The development’s Web site touts its proximity to the international border and the new Anzalduas International Bridge now under construction, built on land Hunt donated. Hunt has also formed Hunt Mexico with a wealthy Mexican business partner to develop both sides of the border into a lucrative trade corridor the size of Manhattan.

Most border residents couldn’t believe the fence would ever be built through their homes and communities. They expected it to run along the banks of the Rio Grande, not north of the flood levees—in some cases like Tamez’s, as far as a mile north of the river. So it came as a shock last summer when residents were approached by uniformed Border Patrol agents. They asked people to sign waivers allowing Homeland Security to survey their properties for construction of the wall. When they declined, Homeland Security filed condemnation suits.
In time, local landowners realized that the fence’s location had everything to do with politics and private profit, and nothing to do with stopping illegal immigration.

From Holes in the Wall by Melissa del Bosque - The Texas Observer

The point where the fence would go in would be right through the business park and utilities portion.
So at this point it shows that it is all money and politics, not about stopping immigration and very little to do with Bush himself since it is the Democrats that cut funding for building the wall so in order to cut costs, they allow gaps. In this case relating to Bush's friend Ray Hunt, it is actually an industrial and business park that is being bypassed, not someones personal property.

Some news outlets are quoting a guy by the name of Garza about him losing his home... yet they don't tell the whole story about how the fence will actually be built:

Garza stands in front of his modest brick home, which he built for his retirement after 50 years as a migrant farmworker. For the past five months, he has stayed awake nights trying to find a way to stop the gears of bureaucracy from grinding over his home.

“I don’t see why they have to destroy my home, my land, and let the wall end there.” He points across the street to Hunt’s land. “How will that stop illegal immigration?”

yet they seem to omit this specific part:

A February 8 announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the agency would settle for building the fence atop the levee behind Garza’s house instead of through it, which has given Garza some hope.

So there are other sides to the story that is very difficult to find unless youread through entire stories and find the small one liners that counter the entire purpose of the story that seem to love defaming Bush simply because of his connection with Ray Hunt...