«Breaking News» Fears gate at border wall could lead to the abandonment of a Texas cemetery with two dozen veterans

Concerns are mounting that a historic Texas cemetery already surrounded by the border wall will be all but forgotten once a barrier gate is installed.  

The Santa Rosalia Cemetery in Texas, where more than two dozen veterans are buried, is beyond the border wall in an area that locals call 'No Man's Land.' 

The border gate will be constructed in the next few months. A contract was awarded last year by Customs and Border Protection. 

Some locals say visitors are already put off from visiting because of the wall and that the installation of the gate will deter other potential visitors.

'People I've spoken to, they saw the wall, and they think they can no longer come back here, they think we're in Mexico, and we're still in the United States,' J.J. Gonzalez, who's grandmother and other great grandparents are buried in Santa Rosalia Cemetery, told Fox News.

Some locals say visitors are already put off from visiting The Santa Rosalia Cemetery in Texas because of the wall and that the installation of the gate will deter other potential visitors

An open section of the wall leads people to the burial ground, but in the next few months, those visiting Santa Rosalia will see a border gate constructed

Gonzalez only recently discovered his grandmother's grave in the cemetery, covered in weeds. 

He went on to find a number of his great grandparents are buried there and started to clean their graves.

This led to a desire to tidy up the cemetery as a whole and make other graves look well tended.

Gonzalez formed the Santa Rosalia Cemetery Preservation Society last year, along with a group of volunteers.

Since then the group have found nearly two dozen veterans buried in the graveyard. 

More than two dozen veterans have been found buried in the cemetery

J.J. Gonzalez, whose ancestors are buried at the cemetery, believes the border gate will deter potential visitors to a cemetery already suffering the effects of neglect

Eugene Fernandez, a commissioner with the Cameron County Historical Commission told Fox News he doesn't believe the gate will put off visitors.

'Even if a Border Patrol person sees you, they'll ask you what's your mission here? And you say, 'well I'm coming to see my grandmother,' and they'll cut the conversation loose from then on,' Fernandez told Fox News.  

The Santa Rosalia Cemetery was established in the 19th century to serve a ranching community that lived by the U.S.-Mexico border. Families moved and the cemetery fell into disrepair. 

The Santa Rosalia Cemetery Preservation Society was formed last year by a group of volunteers

   

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