[Capt. Tom]

“Theodore Roosevelt reserved a 60-foot strip along the international boundary with Mexico for the United States to maintain the area free from obstructions as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico.

If that is the case and that easement exists why is there such a problem with using eminent domain to take private property for the wall?

I wonder if some of the adjacent landowners will ask for adverse possession if they used that strip of land land open and notoriously for 20 or more years and feel it is now their property. Who knows? - tom

[WASCWatch]

Governments are not subject to adverse possession claims.