“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. In effect, the Roosevelt easement provided the federal government with a 60-foot border right-of-way on which it could build the fence.”
I wasn’t aware that eco-fecal freak laws trumps national security...BUILD THE FARGIN WALL!!!!
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27 The land where this fencing was built has been publicly owned since 1907 when President 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. In effect, the Roosevelt easement provided the federal government with a 60-foot border right-of-way on which it could build the fence.
GAO-09-896 Secure Border Initiative, page 21 - Footnote 27
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?531325-The-Roosevelt-border-easment
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
Particularly since according to Gallop of the 450 million living south of the border at least 42 million want to come here. We’re gonna need remote controlled .50s on towers if that estimate (which is conservative by the way) is true.
Did Teddy Roosevelt set this up so Trump can keep us safe?
If so-—someone remind me what political party Roosevelt belonged to.
A 60 ‘ wide easement is lovely news.