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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I still think the wall should be built on the Mexican side of the border.
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.
The land on this side of the border is not; therefore it belongs to individuals, Indian tribes, and states for the most part.
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.
Federal land, the President can do that. Likewise he can build a wall on federal lands without needing the approval of anyone.
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.
There aren't that many and those countries with them aren't building walls along them.
The river between Nth and Sth Korea has no fence that I can see.
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.
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.
They have no man’s land. I’ve been there. It’s not a safe place to be.
Israel has a wall.
In due time, in due time
Do you have skin in this game?
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.
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.
I’ve been to the border in S Korea. They have howitzers, mines, machine guns, etc.
Mexico hasn’t got quite that bad yet.
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.
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.
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.
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