ZAPATA – Zapatans who own riverfront property and are concerned about signing Right of Entry (ROE) letters to allow the Army Corps of Engineers onto their property will be able to confer with attorneys from the Texas Civil Rights (TCRP) at a February 4 meeting in San Ygnacio.
The event begins at 2 p.m. at the San Ygnacio Civic Center on FM 3169.
The purpose of the gathering, which is sponsored by the River Pierce Foundation, the Río Grande International Study Center (RGISC), and the TCRP, is to apprise landowners of their rights in dealing with the federal government.
“What I have found is that none of the government officials with whom we have spoken can say definitively where the wall is going to go,” said Christopher Rincon, executive director of the River Pierce Foundation, which owns several historic properties in proximity of the Río Grande, including the recently restored Treviño-Uribe Rancho, a National Historic Landmark.
Rincon said 50 federal laws have been waived to build the border wall, including the National Preservation Act of 1966; the Clean Water Act; the Clean Air Act; the Endangered Species Act; the Antiquities Act; the Natïve American Grave and Repatriation Act; and the National Environmental Policy Act, the law that calls for environmental studies and town hall meetings for public input for proposed governmental projects that will adversely affect the environment.
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