You're going to need to buy all the land on the Mexican side of the wall.
Plz explain why we need any Mexican land if the wall is entirely on US side of the border. Wall can be built entirely from one side since it is basically installing pre-fabricated sections.
“You’re going to need to buy all the land on the Mexican side of the wall.”
My understanding is that the Government plans to offer to buyout all the land on the South side, so the Government does have to budget to buy it all.
But I believe that only the 150 foot wide strip will be condemned and taken, if the owners do not want to sell. In many cases, land in the rivers floodplain south of the levee is great flat farmland, which farmers can continue to productively work if given a gate with keypad access.
In other cases, owners just do not want to sell the rest of their land, and can negotiate some lower settlement for the damage done to their land value, or to their use of it.