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A delegation of the Border Coalition of Texas will go in January to Washington D.C., to discuss with the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Michael Chertoff, on other alternatives to the construction of the wall in the Texan border with Mexico.

"We are not going to expect that an invitation will be sent to us to speak about that. We are going to go there", emphasized the mayor of Eagle Pass, Chad Foster, yesterday who presides the coalition..

Foster indicated that they will not wait for that answer, therefore they have planned to go to Washington D.C., the week of January 21.

"Fortunately we have all the support of the delegation of Texas in Congress, including Republicans (Sen. Hutchinson) and Democrats, to speak with the secretary of the DHS and to exprese to him our ideas in order to protect the border, instead of building a wall", he said.

He added that in the possible meeting with Chertoff, he will inform him of about the "reality of the border" emphasizing the commerce, the family and social ties among the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.


"To build a wall would be more than a shame", he expressed.

In the letter,members of the coalition proposed to Chertoff to meet with them and to carry out public hearings in the counties that would be affected by the installation of the border wall in Rio Grande Valley, Del Rio and Marfa, on the first week of February.