On Monday, the El Paso County Commissioners’ Court voted 3 to 1 in favor of a resolution that calls for the Department of Homeland Security to stop building the border fence and say that local law enforcement officials should not enforce federal immigration laws.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “the resolution also emphasizes placing a moratorium on immigration raids, ensuring the enforcement of labor laws and civil protections regardless of a worker’s immigration status and stopping programs that criminalize immigrants.”

Commissioner Dan Haggerty voted against the resolution. He believes the fence is intended to secure the border from illegal immigration, drug smuggling and terrorism. On the other hand, Commissioner Miguel Teran, who supports the resolution, claims that current immigration proposals are based on racism.

Opponents of the wall consist of a coalition of Texas border mayors and county executives stretching from El Paso to Brownsville. Residents don’t want the fence to cut through their land and say it will keep them, their livestock and wildlife from the life-sustaining waters of the Rio Grande River.

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