Ramiro Ramirez says US officials are scoping out property for border wall construction that would run through two historic cemeteries where his ancestors are buried.
WASHINGTON — A Texas landowner suing over President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration is worried his ancestors’ bodies will be dug up if border wall construction passes by his land.
Ramirez was unable to speak with BuzzFeed News, but his sister Sylvia Ramirez said in a phone interview that the federal government had been surveying land around the Jackson Ranch Church and Cemetery and the Eli Jackson Cemetery, and that the Ramirez family had not received clear answers from Customs and Border Protection officials about the government's plans.
According to the lawsuit, which BuzzFeed News reviewed in advance of filing and is being brought by the environmental advocacy group Earthjustice, Jackson family members are buried in both cemeteries. Sylvia Ramirez said her great- great-grandfather Nathaniel Jackson built the church in the late 1800s, and most of her direct ancestors are buried in the Jackson Ranch Cemetery.
“In circumstances where cultural and/or historical resources exist within the alignment of planned barrier, CBP employs mitigation strategies to avoid or minimize impacts to these resources to the greatest extent practicable,” the spokesperson said.to date that there is no emergency that justifies the president’s actions, and that funding border wall construction through money designated for military construction is an unconstitutional end-run of Congress.
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