Posted on 12/09/2019 3:59:02 PM PST by BeauBo
President Donald Trump aims to build (has already ready funded) 166 miles of border barrier in Texas...
Land acquisition in the Rio Grande Valley is about to enter a new phase this week, as U.S. attorneys began filing initial petitions in court while making cash offers to property owners, according to Justice Department officials with knowledge of the process.
On Friday, the federal government filed its first land acquisition case to condemn nearly 13 acres of private property in the Rio Grande Valley, a parcel near the river levee in Hidalgo County. The owner was offered $93,449 in compensation for the land.
As the government pushes to accelerate construction of what Trump has promised will be a total of 500 miles of new barrier by the end of 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at nwaonline.com ...
FYI, the first condemnation under eminent domain to build the Trump-era border wall was filed Friday. The owner refused their compensation offer.
We saw reports that the Government was preparing for a wave of these. More will likely come this week. December/January could possibly be the peak of the effort for the Rio Grande Valley.
Over a hundred miles of barrier has been put on contract for the Rio Grande Valley Sector, and they want it basically finished by then end of 2020.
About 400 private landowners must be settled with, or have their land condemned to give contractors enough time to complete their work on schedule.
I don’t know how many have already settled. I heard the President mention months ago that they had front-loaded the land acquisition efforts, and had already made good progress, but push is about to come to shove for the holdouts. They can argue about the price after the barrier is built.
The linked article is mostly Leftist whining over evil Trump injuring the innocent landowners - but it was the first report I saw of the threshold being crossed for condemnations.
We are off to races buttoning up the Rio Grande Valley - the main battle of the war to secure the border. Everything else will be easier/faster/cheaper, and less important, after the RGV.
Posting relevant deserves a LOL?
You crack easy.
Water rights are compensable and transferable.
And therefore can be seized by eminent domain.
It’s come up for discussion before here. That’s where I found out about it. I’ll see if I can find it for you.
Whoa, dude!
If this is true and verifiable, then screw eminent domain; grab it on civil forfeiture when you bring them up on treason and pay them nothing.
“Build our wall on their northern property line.”
What!?!
And give back to Mexico all that land we stole from them, fair and square?
Yeah, maybe. It would most certainly drop those property values lol
I find a LOL more congenial than a Götz von Berlichingen.
It’s called the Roosevelt Reservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Reservation
Not in Texas. The US only has land in TX that was given to the US for use as National Parks, military bases, etc.
Texans fighting Texans.
We threw Rick Perry out of office (Abbot is still an improvement for all his flaws) and we’ll take care of these open borders shitbags too.
danke
You thought a good comeback for being cracked was to inject (using the word again that cracked you) a German because I have Berlin in my name.
That is LOL!
Now how about you grow-up?
And the neighboring property owners would beg to please sell their border property.
I gave one of your usual “making points for the enemy” posts a nice friendly LOL. You are the one who decided to push the matter further.
Having Berlin in your name made me assume you knew what I was saying.
I’ve always wondered about that. Should have made it a mile wide though.
Alex Marlow at Breitbart has done lots of research on this. Unbelievable
“ Don’t kid yourselves. Corruption doesn’t stop at the border. Most landowners near the border are good guys, but there are a few that have sympathies with the other side, and are well paid to not look out the front window sometimes.”
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Perhaps. But let’s not have anymore whining by these people about illegals $h!tt!ng and pissing all over their crops (ever wonder how your produce gets contaminated with Ebola?) , tearing down fences and destroying other property, terrifying ranch workers and residents. Also, quit gaming the system to up the price of their land lost by eminent domain. Had enough of these hypocrites....
-I gave one of your usual “making points for the enemy” posts a nice friendly LOL. You are the one who decided to push the matter further.
Thanks for confirming you have a personal chip on your shoulder and emotional problem against me sharing relevant information.
I responded to you LOLing me. You can’t take it back.
Again, grow-up.
Years ago (3??) I read an article about these property disputes in Texas along the river. It has been going on for a long time. IIRC - the water rights was the primary thing.
An extra 200 feet or whatever of property along the river for grazing wasn’t a huge deal - it was how do you water the cattle now? If you can’t water them, it makes the other 20,000 acres worthless.
I would think that there would be an engineering solution. Diversion structure upstream to put water into a pipe, etc. But I think that opens up a whole can of worms as soon as you start diverting water with regard to water rights, international law, etc.
Don’t believe that applied to the border in Texas. Remember
Texas was a separate Nation when it came in the USA. It
wasn’t part of the original nation.
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