Posted on 01/09/2019 4:08:06 PM PST by bgill
The federal government has started surveying land along the border in Texas and announced plans to start construction next month. Rather than surrender their land, some property owners are digging in, vowing to reject buyout offers and preparing to fight the administration in court. "You could give me a trillion dollars and I wouldn't take it," said Cavazos, whose land sits along the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas. "It's not about money." Congress in March funded 33 miles (53 kilometers) of walls and fencing in Texas. The government has laid out plans that would cut across private land in the Rio Grande Valley. Those in the way include landowners who have lived in the valley for generations, environmental groups and a 19th century chapel. Many have hired lawyers who are preparing to fight the government if, as expected, it moves to seize their land through eminent domain. The opposition will intensify if Democrats accede to the Trump administration's demand to build more than 215 new miles of wall, including 104 miles in the Rio Grande Valley and 55 miles near Laredo. Even a compromise solution to build "steel slats," as Trump has suggested, or more fencing of the kind that Democrats have previously supported would likely trigger more court cases and pushback in Texas.
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Solve it by letting them be on the SOUTH side of the border fence.
Cavazos
I like that idea.
Many along the border are enablers and generally vote Rat. Just look at the voting maps.
“You could give me a trillion dollars and I wouldn’t take it,” said Cavazos, whose land sits along the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas. “It’s not about money.”
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Then get out of our country, asswipe.
First of all, this is clearly public use and the government is entitled to take the land for just compensation. Which can’t be much in that garden spot. Second, how many people are actually in the exact area the fence will be built? I think this is trotted out as a bogeyman every time there is a prospect of building the fence. But I think there are fewer landowners at issue than the media portrays. Also, send a government man down there with cash and see how many people actually refuse to sign over the relevant property. And finally, for those who don’t, build the darn Wall - it’s matter of national defense - and let the resistors go to court after the fact and seek compensation.
Wouldn’t there be some sort of easement around the border?
Sounds Irish..?
Yep. Manifest Destiny. Done.
Oh, so now the Left suddenly cares about property rights now.
How many of them get a vig to let the cartels cross their land?
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Total speculation...but could it be some of them get paid to allow illegals to cross?
This is utter Bullshit. I know landowners down there. They are willing to give land away to get a fence. They are tired of being afraid for their family’s lives, dealing with dead livestock, and having to call the police for dead bodies.
Note the source of this idiocy: cbsaustin
And if any of the ranchers on the border object, they will get to deal with their neighbors. Texas Justice still happens...
Fence them out then.
Let them be on the Mexican side.
Sounds like their little DRUG TRAIN is about to jump the TRACKS!
A military boundary.
A legitimate and necessary function of government, for public USE, unlike that Kelo Shiite.
Take the necessary land.
Pay market price for it.
Be done with it.
I predict, if the remainder of the wall is built, these people will soon be asking for a wall themselves as the traffic will preferentially route through their unwalled property, causing the usual sort of problems, but concentrated, not diffused.
And also the constant presence of the border patrol and other police agencies.
Uh Huh. We know which side he is on. And, someone should ask him if he has ever heard of eminent domain.
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