Too bad. Keep building.
Since there is no question about the Government being able to take over land from landowners, I would rather it be condemned to build a border wall instead of a highway or lake.
I don’t care if it cuts through whatever, build the damn fence.
“Homeland Security documents on a department Web site say that “in some cases, secure gates will be constructed to allow land owners access to their private property near the Rio Grande.” But the documents offer few details.”
Some people will be leaving the gates open you know. Why the buffer zone?
Sarcastically its a shame the Berlin Wall couldn’t have been saved and reused at our southern border.
There must be a buffer zone or else it would be way too easy to have concealed tunnels in houses.
Here’s a better idea: declare war on Mexico, take two miles of their river edge land, and build a wall THERE.
No, it doesn't change ownership. You still own all the land on the other side of your fence. And it protects 98% of your land from the migrations onto your 2%.
Getting desperate with their excuses.
Build the fence!
The Rio Grande doesn't appear to be the most cooperative of international borders.
I'm sure the flood plain and places where the river formerly flowed are fertile farmland, and it can be challenging for residents who use the river as a water supply for drinking or irrigation.
However, there really isn't an easy or simple solution, and the fence needs to be built.
The fence should be built on the Border. Not two miles inside the Border.
Heck, I have had the Mexican/US border as a boundary fence for a ranch. Every night, pull all the batteries from every vehicle. Otherwise, either the rig or the battery will be gone in the morning.
Better than illegals cutting through backyards.
Compensate the landowners and keep building.
Border security fence vs. eminent domain...an irresistible force hitting an immovable object?
I am on the side of the homeowner. They were there first. I feel the same way about the idiots who complain about the noise coming from an air base because they moved in AFTER the base was there for eighty years. I say too bad. Government find a way to go around the area.
It doesn’t really matter if the fence is built exactly on the border, a mile on the US side, or 500 yards from the river’s high water mark - the net intent is to stop unchecked entries into the US and controlled, secure gates at entry checkpoints to allow landowners back onto their unsecured land is the best method to check the flow of illegals.
It might “inconvenience” the landowner, but you could call it just another cost of doing business along the border. Better their inconvenience than the whole nation’s.
why two miles inland?
just build it on the river.
The MSM suddenly discovers property rights.
The Interstate highway system resulted in tens of thousands of homes destroyed. So be it. Get the fence done and ignore this MSM whining.
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Fence? What fence? Oh, you mean th3 one that was supposed to be built a year or so ago (or, cough, maintained for the last couple hundred years) but funding had been slashed and man-power hasn’t been hired and the length has been shortened by about 99.99%?