UTB and DHS headed back to court
School alleges agency violated border fence agreement

Posted: Friday, June 20, 2008 at 7:54 a.m.

The Department of Homeland Security and the University of Texas at Brownsville-Texas Southmost College are headed back to court over the border fence.

The two had reached a courtroom agreement in March regarding access to the university's land for the purposes of surveying.

But in a motion filed on Thursday, UTB claims that Homeland Security violated that agreement and intends to seize land needed for the school's growth.

“Instead of working under these dictates of the order, they chose to move forward with their original plan to construct the fence in the exact same location and manner as previously announced, and to move to seize our land for a token payment,â€