Grit Post By: Tom Cahill 8/21/2019
If President Trump wants to build his border wall along the U.S./Mexico border, it would mean digging up the graves of war veterans in South Texas.
Last week, NBC affiliate KVEO reported that under a contract that was awarded earlier this month, the graves of veterans who fought in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War at the Eli Jackson Cemetery would be dug up in order to build 11 miles of Trump’s proposed border wall in Pharr, Texas (near San Juan), just north of the Rio Grande River.
“When you dig up people out of the ground, you’re killing them again,†said Indigenous activist Juan Benito Mancias, of the Carrizo Comecrudo Nation, who is fighting to protect the graves from being exhumed.
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