I believe the land they bought is in an area that is remote and wouldn’t have a wall anyway. A worthless publicity stunt.
More direct on that is how are they going to explain the R/W notation with the dashed lines on the survey plot?
Just build the wall to put them on the Mexican side.
Even if it were, a better case for Emminent Domain I cannot think of.
Apparently the idiots have never heard of Eminent Domain.
It might be remote, but it would still serve as a magnet to a “gap” in the wall, an unauthorized entry point.
I am all for the project of building a half-mile wide sea level canal from Brownsville, Texas, to Chula Vista, California, following the existing US-Mexico boundary, and thus turning El Paso, Texas, into a major seaport, with a large turning basin and dock facilities.
But this shall await the development of large anti-gravity carrying barges, and dumping the spoil in the Gulf of Mexico, to form a large island suitable for development of massive resort facilities.
Leave it as a gateway and position BP there to pick up anyone who passes through. Sic the EPA on them with all sorts of fines when the land becomes a garbage dump.
Even if they did somehow purchase land intending to disrupt building the wall, I'm pretty certain eminent domain would easily be used by the feds for national security reasons.
Aside from the fact that I believe the government has a strong case in eminent domain, since involves public safety and sovereignty issues.