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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Advocates stage protest against border wall
future in the Senate, where
Democrats and some Republi-
cans have spoken against it.
Government
have already been taking soil
samples along the Rio Grande
levees and have begun to exam-
ine property ownership records
for the land condemnation law-
suits a border wall would likely
require, according to local offi-
cials and landowners near the
river. A map released by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection
shows tentative plans to build
28 miles of wall on the levee in
Hidalgo County, the most pop-
ulous county of the valley. Sec-
tions of fencing already stand on
about 20 miles of the levee in
Hidalgo County, built under the
Secure Fence Act of 2006.
The remaining 32 miles
would go in sections farther west
in Starr County, potentially seal-
ing off or splitting some border
towns from the river and con-
signing homes and farmland to
what some derisively call “the
Mexican side.”
Under the current proposal,
the wall would seal La Lomita
on the southern side of the levee.
It would also cut through the
Santa Ana National Wildlife
Refuge, a verdant sanctuary for
400 species of birds and nearly
half of the butterfly species
found in North America. The
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security can waive environmen-
tal reviews to build more quick-
ly, and has already issued a waiv-
er for proposed construction in
San Diego.
Scott Nicol, co-chair of the
Sierra Club’s Borderlands cam-
paign and an organizer of Satur-
day’s rally, said some people who
were neutral or quiet about the
last U.S. government effort to
build a border barrier are speak-
ing against it this time.
“Because people have seen
the walls go up and see what
they do, it’s not sort of an ab-
stract, imagined concept,” Nicol
said. “There’s a lot more opposi-
tion to it now than there was 10
years ago.”
Marie Montalvo, a resident
of San Benito, said she had been
followed by the Border Patrol
during a recent visit to Santa
Ana to take pictures.
“I want my nieces and neph-
ews, and the children of the Rio
Grande Valley, to know that I
was completely against this,”
Montalvo said.
By Nomaan Merchant
Associated Press
MISSION - Hundreds of
protesters wearing white and
chanting in English and Spanish
marched Saturday in Texas’ first
major protest against a border
wall, crossing the earthen Rio
Grande levee where President
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wants to build part of the first
phase.
The protesters launched
what’s expected to be a fierce
movement against Trump’s
best-known immigration policy
priority. Many of the partici-
pants acknowledged they might
not be able to stop a project that
the U.S. government is already
planning, but they hoped to
draw national attention to the
Eric Gay/AP
Hundreds of people march Saturday in Mission toward the Rio Grande to oppose the wall the
U.S. government wants to build on the river. The area would be the target of new barrier
construction under the Trump administration's current plan.
cause and persuade lawmakers
who have yet to sign off on fund-
ing for the project.
“We might seem small and
insignificant. Maybe we are,”
said Anthoney Saenz, a 19-year-
old native of the Rio Grande Val-
ley, the southernmost point of
Texas and a region where Trump
has proposed putting 60 miles
of wall as part of a $1.6 billion
proposal. “But when our voices
come together, when we band
together as a community to try
to get a voice out there, we have
to hope we get heard,” he said.
Organizers of Saturday’s pro-
test wanted to make clear the
depth of local opposition to the
border wall, which as proposed
would cut through a federally
protected wildlife refuge and
split apart several border towns.
Some 40 groups took part in the
protest, from environmentalists
to landowners’ rights groups to
immigrant advocates.
The procession set out just af-
ter dawn from Our Lady of Gua-
dalupe, a towering church in the
border city of Mission. Saenz, an
altar server at Our Lady of Gua-
dalupe, led the group wearing a
white cassock and carrying a
burner with smoky incense.
The procession grew as it
headed south toward the Rio
Grande, the winding river that
separates the United States and
Mexico in Texas. The marchers
walked uphill on a dirt path onto
the levees, built well north of the
river to protect border cities in
the valley from flooding.
It ended at La Lomita, a tiny
century-old chapel just south of
the levee. Some people quietly
prayed inside the chapel as a ral-
ly went on outside.
While the U.S. House has
passed a spending with funding
for the wall, it faces an uncertain
Texas to restrict abortion coverage
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state has fallen from more than
82,000 in 2006 to around
54,300 in 2015.
“One of the talking points
we’ve heard lately is abortion
should be considered health
care,” Elizabeth Graham, direc-
tor of Texas Right to life, told a
Texas Senate committee. “Real-
ly, the definition of health care is
to make a person well and to en-
courage health. The definition of
a successful abortion is the com-
plete death of the unborn child.”
State policy analyst Elizabeth
Nash of the Guttmacher Insti-
tute, a national research group
that supports abortion rights,
said she knows of no current
analysis of the impact of states
imposing coverage restrictions,
nor the extent to which health
plans offer supplemental cover-
age for abortion.
“My sense is that there isn’t
any identifiable impact of these
restrictions since most women
pay out of pocket already,” Nash
said by email.
Ten states already have laws
restricting insurance coverage of
abortion in all private insurance
plans: Idaho, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, Okla-
homa and Utah. All make ex-
ceptions if the mother’s life is en-
dangered; only Indiana and
Utah also make exceptions for
rape and incest.
The measure’s House spon-
sor, Republican Rep. John
Smithee, said it applies only to
“elective” abortions and pro-
motes “economic freedom” by
not forcing Texas policyholders
who object to abortion to “sub-
sidize” insurance coverage for
women undergoing the proce-
dure.
medically necessary abortions.
They also said the law will re-
quire women to purchase insur-
ance plans that insurers won’t
actually offer because too few
women will buy them, not
knowing in advance that they
will be undergoing abortions.
Rep. Chris Turner, head of the
House Democratic Caucus, said
the bill would effectively require
women to buy “rape insurance.”
“I think we all agree, rape, sex-
ual assault, incest are horrible
crimes,” said Turner, of the Dallas
suburb of Grand Prairie. He add-
ed of victims who wouldn’t be eli-
gible for abortion insurance cov-
erage: “Let’s not re-victimize that
same person again.”
Texas approved some of the
nation’s strictest limits on abor-
tion in 2013, but those were
mostly struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court last summer.
Still, abortion clinics around the
state have closed and the num-
ber of abortions performed in
the country’s second-largest
By Will Weissert
and David Crary
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Republican-
controlled Texas Legislature is
poised to restrict insurance cover-
age for abortions over the objec-
tions of opponents who say doing
so could force some women to
make heart-wrenching choices
because no exceptions will be
made in cases of rape and incest.
A bill requiring women to
purchase extra insurance to cov-
er abortions except amid medi-
cal emergencies already cleared
the state House after hours of
emotional debate. The Texas
Senate could approve it Satur-
day night, sending the restric-
tions to Republican Gov. Greg
Abbott to be signed into law.
State lawmakers debated
other bills limiting insurance
coverage for abortion during
Texas’ regular legislative session
that ended in May, but Abbott
called a special session and re-
vived the issue.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at an event where he an-
nounced his bid for re-election July 14 in San Antonio.
Booming cities
feeling stunted by
governor’s agenda
“What we’re saying here is: If
you want to buy this coverage,
you can buy it,” said Smithee, a
Republican from Amarillo.
Outnumbered Democrats
dismissed the bill as purely polit-
ical, arguing that insurance
companies already cover only
On Saturday, the Republi-
can-controlled House was
poised to push one measure
closer to Abbott’s desk to the dis-
may of cities: Requiring local of-
ficials to get voter approval for
tax hikes above a certain thresh-
old, which mayors say would
hamper their ability to keep fi-
nancial pace with their fast-
growing cities.
“Texas is best when the state
and cities are working together
in partnership. Not as adversar-
ies,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Ni-
renberg said. “The irony of all
this is that if it is the truly in the
business of the Legislature to
ensure a strong Texas economy
and educate its citizens, they’re
cutting of their nose off to spite
its face.”
Republicans also have made
attempts to put spending caps
on cities and limit the ability to
annex new land.
Another proposal would
take an ax to local ordinances
that stop or discourage home-
owners from chopping down
trees.
By Paul J. Weber
Associated Press
AUSTIN — As Texas’ big cit-
ies boom like few places in the
U.S., Republican Gov. Greg Ab-
bott is trying to rein them in and
reassert himself ahead of his
2018 re-election bid, but some of
his summer demands are wilt-
INDICTMENTS
The following people were indicted by
a Denton County grand jury on Thurs-
day at the Denton County Courts
Building. Listed are those indicted,
their age, charges and the law en-
forcement agency that made the
arrest:
■ Jose Bello-Abarca, 29, possession of
a controlled substance, Carrollton police
■ Christopher Cox, 31, possession of a
controlled substance, Aubrey police
■ Christon Neumann, 42, possession of
a controlled substance, Corinth police
■ Emily Gravley, 25, possession of a
controlled substance, Lewisville police
■ Daria McDonald, 36, possession of a
controlled substance, Little Elm police
■ Anthony Bonafide, 29, possession of
a controlled substance, Northlake police
■ Dayton Taylor, 28, possession of a
controlled substance, Oak Point police
■ Paul Aleman, 29, possession of
marijuana, Texas Department of Public
Safety
■ Jarmal Davis, 29, possession of
marijuana, Texas Department of Public
Safety
■ Shane Mozingo, 25, possession of
marijuana, Texas Department of Public
Safety
■ Deborah Gallardo, 62, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
Texas Department of Public Safety
■ David Orozco, 25, possession of a
controlled substance, Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety
■ Jeremy Leake, 36, three counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
unlawful possession of firearm, Carroll-
ton police
■ Wayne Echelmeyer, 51, three counts
of possession of a controlled substance,
Carrollton police
■ Heather Flores, 36, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
Carrollton police
■ Evan Robertson, 25, engaging in
organized criminal activity, Carrollton
police
■ Derek Lowe, 25, engaging in orga-
nized criminal activity, Carrollton police
■ Isaac Stallworth, 26, engaging in
organized criminal activity, Carrollton
police
■ Nickalas Cannon, 25, possession of a
controlled substance, Denton police
■ Emanuel Mendoza, 23, possession of
a controlled substance with intent to
deliver, Denton police
■ Xavier Perkins, 27, theft, Denton
police
■ Nicolas Phillips, 22, possession of
marijuana, Denton police
■ Jennifer Rosso, 43, two counts of
possession of a controlled substance,
Denton police
■ Mark Green, 43, possession of a
controlled substance, Denton police;
possession of a controlled substance,
Denton County Sheriff's Office
■ Elijah Harris, 19, two counts of theft,
Denton County Sheriff's Office
■ Walter Shoemake, 18, three counts of
theft, burglary of a habitation, burglary
of a building, Denton County Sheriff's
Office
■ Bobby Taylor, 33, impersonating
public servant, possession of a con-
trolled substance, Denton County
Sheriff's Office
■ Justin Carter, 23, unlawful possession
of firearm, Denton County Sheriff's
Office
■ Jay Balch, 23, unlawful possession of
firearm, Denton County Sheriff's Office
■ Robert Boyd, 26, harassment against
public servant, The Colony police
■ Sidney Cade III, 65, theft, The Colony
police
■ Thomas Evans, 37, tampering with or
fabricating physical evidence, The
Colony police
■ Adam Goodwin, 24, possession of a
controlled substance, The Colony police
■ John Lopez, 36, theft, The Colony
police
■ Tony Moore Jr., 29, possession of a
controlled substance, The Colony police
■ Aaron Reeves, 20, criminal mischief,
evading arrest, The Colony police
■ Kenneth Bartnik, 34, possession of a
controlled substance, Lewisville police
■ Bradley Brumley, 23, possession of
marijuana, possession of a controlled
substance, Lewisville police
■ William Crossland, 26, evading arrest,
Lewisville police
■ Trayzel Jones, 26, possession of a
controlled substance with intent to
deliver, Lewisville police
■ Joshua Smith, 19, fraudulent use or
possession of identifying information,
Lewisville police
■ Wesley Price, 30, two counts of debit
card abuse, Lewisville police; pos-
session of a controlled substance by
fraud, Frisco police
■ Kevin Pineda, 20, intoxication assault,
Carrollton police
■ Gregory Morgan, 47, driving while
intoxicated, Denton police
■ Letishia Draughon, 37, driving while
intoxicated, Flower Mound police
■ William Durham, 18, theft, Highland
Village police
■ Sarah Medina, 18, theft, Highland
Village police
■ Ryan Blansett, 38, driving while
intoxicated, Lewisville police
■ Jeremi Woods, 39, driving while
intoxicated, Lewisville police
■ Raymonda Cooper, 33, harassment
against public servant, Little Elm police
■ Kristin White, 47, driving while
intoxicated with child passenger, Little
Elm police
■ Johnette Venegas, 50, driving while
intoxicated, Texas Department of Public
Safety
mg.
That includes a “bathroom
bill” targeting transgender peo-
ple that by Saturday was all but
dead in Texas for the second
time this year.
For Abbott, who is out to sat-
isfy his restless base of social
conservatives, a special 30-day
legislative session that began
with him demanding 20 new
laws could end next week with
many failing.
It also deepened a rift be-
tween Republican leaders and
Texas’ biggest and most eco-
nomically vibrant cities —
Houston, Dallas, San Antonio
and Austin — which felt under
attack by an agenda heavy on
curbing municipal authority.
Similar power struggles be-
tween cities and states are in-
creasingly playing out nation-
wide as GOP governors take aim
at liberal urban areas where
Democrats wield most influ-
Conservatives contend that
having a patchwork of local
rules puts Texas at a competi-
tive disadvantage and makes
cities less inviting with undue
regulation.
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