Landowners in south Texas are fighting plans by the federal government to build a Security Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border from Brownsville to Del Rio. The property owners in the Rio Grande Valley have refused to let U.S. surveyors onto their land. The government is suing to gain access, which it says it needs to complete nearly 370 miles of border fencing by the end of the year 2009.

South Texas Border Wall 2010

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s removal of more than 70 grapefruit trees from loop family land. On Wednesday morning, members of the Loop family watched helplessly as a government contractor’s large yellow Caterpillar excavator began the process of removing the trees. The trees were removed to make way for the border wall, which is being built by the Kiewit Corporation.