Kenneth
Koym,
Psychotherapist at Dialoguemakers.org
Approved
Continuing Education Sponsor – State Bar of
http://dialoguemakers.org,
Tel 512.215.4798, Email: koym@dialoguemakers.org
Attn: HTURGVcomments@BorderFence.com
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In Turn: Mr.
Michael Chertoff, Secretary – a Citizen of
Re:
Greetings:
I hereby file this statement in accord with the
National
Environmental Policy Act, mandating an Impact Statement for all major
federal
actions significantly affecting the quality of life in the 
These results produced a highly negligible return on the investment.
See research results set forth by unbiased scientists contributing to A barrier to our shared environment: The
border fence between the United States & Mexico (2007,
ISBN: 968-794-764-8);
you may access this book at http://www.ine.gob.mx/publicaciones/consultaPublicacion.html?id_pub=519.
Certainly the fauna, ecosystem and legal relationships that are
involved needed much closer and more sane examination.
Building a wall at the border between the
1)
Native
People living
in this Hemisphere three millennia before Europeans migrated to the
2)
Thirty
five Nations
making up this Hemisphere since Nation States have been set forth; and
with
3)
Nations
of Europe
which founded Spanish, British, Dutch, and German Colonies in the
1)
Spanish
Land Grants recognized the Lipan Apache Nation
in a grant describing the before the
i.
According to Dr. Eloisa G. Tamez
sacred lands EloisaGTamez who wrote:
“I am one
of those individuals who have refused Homeland Security access to my
land.
Secretary Chertoff is saying that the
government
needs access to the land to assess the best placement of the wall. I
was told
by his representatives that they needed to test the soil, etc. to
assess
environmental impact. I was told by the representatives that they were
not
there to talk about the erection of a wall--just to test the soil and
take
measurements. The other land grant descendents in the area were also
told that.
The government representatives say that 90 to 95 percent of the people
who gave
access are also in agreement to the wall. The same people with whom I
have
discussed the signing of the document indicate they did not agree to
the
erection of the wall -- only to access to evaluate the land. The
information
does not coincide. We are being betrayed and coerced. We are being
invaded and corralled
in our own land. Is this a democratic country and the envy of the
world?
ii. Kickapoo Tribe of Texas impacted around Eagle Pass; the Coahuiltecan reaching into Mexico from Del Rio north to El Paso; and the Pueblo Indians, Isleta del Sur and Senecfi del Sur, near El Paso; and the Apache, Comanche; still being identified in birth certificates, local, state and US government records and correspondences unearthed as families gain the resources to prove up their rights.
iii. Ugly arm chair orders written by the Secretary of the Homeland Security Department Michael Chertoff and expanded by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales placed children of such parents in situations where they could be humiliated and disenfranchised. In an earlier case, instigated by Rep. Lamar Smith an immigrant minor; this cost the US 12 million dollars.
iv.
With the wall replacing freedoms
that existed
under Spanish, French, Texas National Law, as well as
2)
The Mayors and Chambers of Commerce
on each side
of the Rio Grande River jointly oppose a conclusion of the wall on the
grounds it is a scourge that would destroy a healthy multi-billion
dollar relationship; and,
NAFTA
statistics show the volume of business conducted between businesses
from the State
of Texas and Mexico exceed that of all the remaining States of the USA
put together
and Mexico. Texans shall be shorted by billions of dollars. Water,
transportation and trade agreements will be greatly hampered for
decades after
wall construction.
4)
By denting Texas-Mexico proceeds and
contrary to
Texas Government Code, Section 490.001
by Acts
2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921, Sec. 17.001(31), as an active
original member
of San Antonio’s Free Trade Alliance of 1990-1993, I submit Michael Chertoff’s
wall-builders spells ruin to a healthy
economy
and it will hurt incomes of a highly significant number of Texans and
Mexicans
who now reduce the number of probable immigrants to the
USA. The EIS put forth failed to look at how the proposed
"wall-building effort will increase not reduce poverty and the number
of those forced into servitude."
1)
As an alternative to building a
wall, I urge a
two-pronged policy that creates
i.
Fair Trade Alliances (not an equal
trade agreement
as passed in mid 2007 by Costa Rica only after fierce intrusion in
local voter
decision making by the Bush administration) and
ii.
establishes an Entrepreneur
Development
Incentives Program which pipes intellectual capital to prospective
immigrants
in their
homes of origin so they remain at home and turn their dreams into
successful businesses in
which
they grow pride and futures independent of living amidst those of us in
the
USA. Just like any other distance education intellectual capital is
needed to
foster entrepreneurial development and can be sent into the third world
and
rather
than turning people off, they can be turned on to creative lives
outside this
country.
5)
The impact brought forth by the Wall
could
easily cost the US 185 billion dollars annually for the next five
decades if
the wall is completed. In
6)
The
hate must be
halted in agreement with multi-national Accords existing prior to this
millennium. Anger became a politicized reality contrary to the Hate
Crimes Act
and now gravely hampers the economic life, psychological,
cultural and
political well-being of our countries and in specific it maims 85 % of the population found in the
Rio Grande
Valley -- principally a Hispanic
minority and
the nearly 55 % of those living between Eagle Pass and El Paso by
incrementally
blocking foot traffic, daily familial interactions, church going with
extended
family and entrepreneurial efforts on each side of the border.
7) Erecting a wall at the border of the United States and Mexico, Brownsville to El Paso sets a burdensome precedence because it will and has already hampered (and hampers) the economic, psychological, cultural and political well-being of our countries. If measured it in terms of hate crimes and political football, the process is profoundly destructive to the image of the United States. A wall provides no solution; it will bring human suffering and servitude and increase poverty. Based on my 47 years of professional experience dialoguing with North, South and Central Americans, I opine it will aggravate the environment and harmony between cultures amicably existing side by side without external antagonism or the Homeland Security for centuries. [See Addicts to easy money, violence & terrorism (Koym, 2003).] This intrusion will harm native people by further breaking apart their Nations, business communities by increasing costs and persons of faith by wedging distance between believers. I oppose it.
8) Preaching prejudice, committing hate crimes to achieve the incriminalization of classes of people violates Hemispherical and international agreements reaching to 1695, is wrong. Using racism to achieve leadership wastes harmony. Ugly blasts bring unnecessary hurt to children as families have been interned with raids conducted. I observed angers be converted to racist like action. Ill-prepared office holders and Homeland Security personnel began building a 700-mile border wall but not looking at decades of negative consequences that evolve from short-sighted efforts.
9) Contrary to the Hate Crimes Act, the political football brought on by the Wall and arguments about immigrations are indisputably harmful. Human relations on each side of our once friendly border have been squashed. That is unbecoming and the blame lies with US leaders who have committed violated the US Hate Crimes Act of 2007.[1].
1) Neo Nazis Racism & White Supremacy Threats: Contrary to the Hate Crimes Act of 2007, threats continue to be issued, including administratively derived statutes set forth so a border wall can be built and generate fascist images of the USA. This DOHS action barricades and will inhibit informal relations that have been in place for 450 years.
2)
Minutemen and other hate group
members combined
with ICE and 
This started between April 2000 and July 2001 but grew to enormity
after Mr. Chertoff shaparoned such
practices
on Sacred Lands which
cross the Mexico Arizona border. Numerous were injured or died in fear
of being
apprehended and jailed. By 2007 thousands have been unlawfully
apprehended by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In
3)
Maricopa
County Sheriff Arpaio's Office has
“enforced federal
immigration laws since March 2006. About 160 deputies and jail officers
have
been specially trained to enforce federal immigration laws. Since 2006,
ICE-trained Maricopa deputies have arrested or deported more than 1,200
people.
In July, Arpaio launched a controversial
hotline to
let the public report "illegal immigrants" or smuggling activity. … The
named litigant is Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres,
a
10)
Complaints filed by the
11)
Europeans note beginning in 2005-06,
Mexican Consular Officers helped migrants. Since mid 2007, US Customs
Officers
are in fight mode, not seeking peace 
or order like
this.
Unfortunately, prejudice and
hate preached by US Rep Lamar Smith from 1981 to 1986, has rubbed off
on the DOHS. He
wrote the Immigration Reform Act of 1986, a law whose impact was
not verified as neutered. I
lived in
12)
In
contrast to the negatives fostered by Michael Chertoff,
the Germans are commended for having taken corrective actions on behalf
of more
than three million citizens of
13)
Like
pronouncements against bashing of foreigners were made in
14)
Why
the pressure? “In the past, three out of every four of 1.3 million
Mexicans (or
Central Americans) caught each year at the border entered the US
through
metropolitan areas. The rest came across in remote areas. The number of
apprehensions in Douglas, Arizona, a rural ranching community in
Cochise
County, used to be about 8 to 10 thousand people,,,” up through 1995.
The US
Border Patrol projected it would apprehend a half million at this
crossing by
15)
According
to Mexican Consul Salvador Cassian,
assigned to
16)
Sources
for
- But, the part not
felt or understood by many
- To neutralize fights on the ball field, heavy weight was required to curtail grave harm. Those heavy weights arrived.
- Heavy Weights Favor Migration & oppose quasi-military strategy & human rights abuses against migrants.
I support of better Mexican-American relations and of human rights and am appalled that the Rio Grande Valley Tactical In fracture EIS, the DOHS and ICE have not made it feasible for citizens to participate in this process nor was it not feasible to fax my report during an earlier Valley Infrastructure EIS. Should there be any doubt as to my determination that building a wall at the border of the United States and Mexico starting in the Rio Grande Sector through to the San Diego Sector, will bring lasting detrimental psychological, cultural, economic and political harm to world relations, local development and regional betterment, please see Children’s rights & deportations a call for justice -- 2000; Koym; Surviving traumas in Guatemala: Peace Accord Challenges & Entrepreneurial Promises – 2003, Koym; and, Series of Strategies For Controlling Narcotrafficking & Unifying the Country Against Crime – resulting in Mexico’s National Plan Against Crime & Violence adopted in 1998 (Koym received 1-13-98 Oficio No. 017/98, a Letter of Commendation from Mexico’s Attorney General Office). Or, contact me care of my address or call: 512.215.4798. This document or its update hereinafter shall be posted at http://dialoguemakers.org/ErectingWallHarmfulImpact.htm [Note, various works cited in this letter are amidst updating.]
Sincerely yours,
Kenneth Koym,
Psychotherapist,