Cards Against Humanity buys land on Mexican border to stump Trump's wall plan

CNN ^ | November 15, 2017 | Aaron Smith

[yoe]

"So we've purchased a plot of vacant land on the border..."

Vacant land on the border? I doubt it....who is going to police the land from drug smugglers...or maybe CAH wants to or is in the drug business...using the wall as an excuse to open the door wider to the drug cartels, human, OTM traffic....if in fact this is not fake news..............

[henkster]

Eminent domain isn’t that tough. The land gets appraised, the government puts the money in escrow and starts building while the courts decide whether you get what’s escrowed or whether you can prove its worth more.

The better tactic is to go environmental protection; find some frogs or snails or something.

[GraceG]

Just build around that land and scede it to mexico...

They love mexico so damned much make the founder live there.

[shooter223]

There is a 60ft. easement along the length of the border owned by fedgov for the purpose of security. It is called the Roosevelt Reservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Reservation

[MrEdd]

Eminent Domain, meet Stupid Game.
Stupid Game, meet Eminent Domain.

Today’s lesson will be about fools and their money.

Let’s all have a good laugh.

[Fresh Wind]

The wall would increase the value of the land in question. The new owner would appreciate not have hordes of invaders trashing his land and property.

[jmaroneps37]

Never heard of Eminent Domain I guess. But of course the wall could just go around them and let them protect themselves.

[Wuli]

A good case for the use of eminent domain.

[Red Badger]

The extremely rare Mexicali Oomie-Goomie bird’s habitat is threatened!.............

[Clay Moore]

Just put up the wall and leave them on the wrong side. Make their investment absolutely worthless.

[Mariner]

Brilliant marketing scheme.

they will become rich over it.

Oh, and it’s NOTHING BUT MARKETING. they know they can stop nothing.

[caligatrux]

Simple. Build it right up to their property line on both sides...

Post signs for miles in each direction on each side of their property, that to facilitate crossing, all those doing so should make the crossing at that property

The way I would do it is this:
- Offer to buy the property at a reasonable price.
- When they refuse, let them know that once the rest of the wall is built, any future wall building costs relative to that property will be assessed to them.
- Build the wall right up to their property on either side.
- Put cameras with facial recognition software on the edges of the wall by the property.
- Pass a law making people who own property on the border without government-approved entry barriers liable for any costs, fees, taxes, damages, deportment expenses, etc. incurred by illegal aliens that enter across their land.
- Every time an illegal alien is detained, arrested, found guilty of a criminal or civil violation, etc., run his face through the facial recognition database and see where he crossed. - Send them the bill.

[DesertRhino]

Sounds like they may not know much about the law regarding the border. Probably city kids...

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Trump could have some real fun with this.

[eastforker]

So Newbie, the only reason you voted for Trump was the wall, other than that you was gonna vote for Hillary???

[aces]

let em pay for it, then imminent domain comes in

[TexasFreeper2009]

um.. imminent domain... might want to read up on it.

[oldasrocks]

You forgot about the part of land mines around the property borders.

[mazda77]

Ding-dongs most likely never bothered to understand what the R/W notation inside the dashed lines along the border meant.

[CharlesWayneCT]

If they actually offered land to be purchased by their customers for the purpose of blocking, that is probably fraud, because as they well know, the government can seize any property for their purposes, with nothing other then compensation.

So instead of paying the former owners, the government will pay these owners, but nothing is blocked, and people who gave them money for that purpose were cheated by the company.