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Trump border wall: Texans receiving letters about their land
See BS News ^ | 03/15/2017 | See BS News

Posted on 03/15/2017 7:21:55 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

Even before Donald Trump was inaugurated, U.S. citizens who own land along the border reportedly began receiving letters from the Justice Department informing them that the federal government wants their land to build a fence (i.e. the president’s border wall), that it intends to acquire their land, and the amount of compensation the government is offering.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; bordersecurity; buildthewall; illegals; texas; trump; wall
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I still think the wall should be built on the Mexican side of the border.


101 posted on 03/16/2017 5:04:07 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Dusty Road

However, those along any border do not use that border without understanding a government controls its own borders. It’s understood by use of the word invasion, naturalization, defend, etc in the constitution and by the congressional power to pass any legislation that enables any of the expressly stated powers.

I would be looking for the best deal and the best idea if I were a landowner alongside a national border.


102 posted on 03/16/2017 5:05:11 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The border is international territory; therefore it is under the domain of the Feds.

The land on this side of the border is not; therefore it belongs to individuals, Indian tribes, and states for the most part.

103 posted on 03/16/2017 5:13:04 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: xzins

The property ends at the waters edge, the border goes down the middle of the river with the exception of a few small places. Plus the river has the ability to change course and has many times in the past, especially down in the valley where there are many old oxbows present.


104 posted on 03/16/2017 5:15:12 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: ryderann
Didn’t Obama take a bunch of land by declaring it a monument or something?

Federal land, the President can do that. Likewise he can build a wall on federal lands without needing the approval of anyone.

105 posted on 03/16/2017 5:15:40 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: manc

Please manc. The rat party is enemy number one along with the rat media. Trump ran on the GOP ticket and virtually all of his appointees are GOP members. Your frustration is misdirected my friend. We are all suffering from 8 years of the most evil African politician ever to gain power. Bo is the love child of the democrats.


106 posted on 03/16/2017 5:17:20 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: xzins
What do other countries with border rivers do?

There aren't that many and those countries with them aren't building walls along them.

107 posted on 03/16/2017 5:27:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

The river between Nth and Sth Korea has no fence that I can see.


108 posted on 03/16/2017 5:29:44 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Vaquero
How much land would the strip require? 500 yds from the border at most? With access road here and there? This is bupkis.

Depends. First, you don't build your wall in the floodplain; it could be washed away and then where are you? So it has to sit back from the bank of the river. For reasons of geology or topography it may have to be a considerable distance from the river. You don't plop down a thirty or forty foot high concrete wall on just any piece of land. It has to be able to support the weight. You could well wind up having to build the wall hundreds of yards from the geographic border, which means you have to buy all the private land between the wall and the border. So it's not as easy as you suggest.

109 posted on 03/16/2017 5:32:58 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Dusty Road

And there’s boating, fishing, commerce, etc.

My property borders a major stream in Ohio. My deed says my property line goes to the middle of that stream. There are canoers, fishermen, kayakers, and govt officials who would get royally PO’d if I built a fence in the middle of it.

I’ve built a landing, but I wouldn’t dare put a hydro collector out there. The gov’t claims that stream.

I just choose to live with them and do nothing annoying.

Since all of Texas has a river border on the south, it clearly is a national defence issue. A wall down the middle of the rio grande doesn’t make sense, but the river itself is a barrier, so a road along the entire border does make sense.

Being retired military, I know the power of infrared radar. FLIR stations line-of-site along that entire border would work. Not a rabbit can move without flir seeing it.

What procedures to implement would be important and especially in high population areas.

We need those 10000 new agents and guards.


110 posted on 03/16/2017 5:34:45 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Dusty Road

They have no man’s land. I’ve been there. It’s not a safe place to be.

Israel has a wall.


111 posted on 03/16/2017 5:36:38 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
See, the government is all the same. Meaning, this all started under Obama. Same punch bowl just a different turd floating in the punch. There is only one way to fix our problem in Texas and that is #TEXIT
112 posted on 03/16/2017 5:37:36 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Rennes Templar
I’m about to the point where I wouldn’t mind if Trump abolished congress and appointed himself king

In due time, in due time

113 posted on 03/16/2017 5:39:43 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Timpanagos1

Do you have skin in this game?


114 posted on 03/16/2017 5:42:48 AM PDT by Osage Orange (We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools)
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To: xzins

They have no wall on their river border with South Korea and the Israeli wall is around Gaza and the strip with no water border fenced that I can see.


115 posted on 03/16/2017 5:45:01 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Professional
Federal judges will block every shovel for EVERY reason. This travel ban thing has assured us of that. The linchpin of the Presidency is how he handles these activist judges. If you ain’t gonna fight, why’d ya bother runnin? Pray that Trump puts on some boxing gloves and starts punching folks in the mouth. Otherwise....pfft.

Yours is the perfect post.

If you think you are going to deal with these radicals across a board room table instead of getting down in the dirt you are just plain ignorant.

To answer the "if you ain't gonna fight, why'd ya bother running?" part, well like we were trying to tell all of his devout supporters, he is one of them in many ways and this is one of them. He thinks his ego will win over these leftist wackos and send them running. He will sit back, spend OUR money and let the judges hold this up in court until the next 4 year cycle, IMO.

116 posted on 03/16/2017 5:48:35 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Dusty Road

I’ve been to the border in S Korea. They have howitzers, mines, machine guns, etc.

Mexico hasn’t got quite that bad yet.


117 posted on 03/16/2017 6:12:04 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: MattinNJ
Middle Easterners cross into the US from the Canadian border onto the reservations in upstate NY.

Fine. Build a wall on their southern border. It will help keep out the illegal drugs and contraband the Indians smuggle into the USA as well.

118 posted on 03/16/2017 6:15:07 AM PDT by Gritty (The whole leftist platform is about putting us down and keeping us down - Kurt Schlicter)
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To: bert

So build the wall on our land (north of the river) but build a parallel “river” (a system of canals, sluices, pumping stations, etc.) to the north of the wall. Build a dam just north of where the Rio Grande becomes the border and use it to divert the amount of water that we are entitled to into “Rio Grande North.” Send the rest of the water into “Rio Grande South,” the current river, and Mexico can drink every drop of it.


119 posted on 03/16/2017 6:15:16 AM PDT by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: Dusty Road

An aqueduct can be built, or some other form of irrigation/supply line, to ensure that local landowners and their livestock have access to water.


120 posted on 03/16/2017 6:33:51 AM PDT by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass. / Count your blessings!)
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