Photos: Federal complaint shows Laredo land where border wall survey is planned

Laredo Morning Times ^ | March 6, 2020 | Julia Wallace

[BeauBo]

The federal government on Wednesday filed a condemnation complaint to survey 104 parcels of land owned by the City of Laredo, up and down the Rio Grande, in order to assess where exactly the border wall should go.

Maps included in the lawsuit outline in red the “proposed project area” for the wall...

As just compensation for this expansive taking and condemnation, the federal government is offering its standard $100 to access the land. The 104 parcels total about 982 acres, according to the lawsuit.

This legal action stems from City Council’s decision in January to deny the feds access to this miles-long span of riverfront land. The case was then taken up by the Department of Justice, and filed in federal court.

A federal judge will almost certainly grant the Department of Homeland Security the right of entry, but the city’s denial of the request in January in essence delayed the timeline for construction of the border wall here.

[BeauBo]

Very detailed images of the route (generally pretty close to the river) are available at the link, for anyone who lives in the area (around Laredo, TX).

Driving on with with preparing to contract this year's appropriated border wall funding, with only minimal delay (a few weeks) from the obstruction of local Democrat politicians.

[Jim W N]

Constitutionally, the feds must get state permission to buy the land.

Congress shall have power...to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings

U.S. Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 17.

[bigbob]

Good, get the damned permission and build the wall.

[ASA Vet]

Give them what they want. Build OUR wall on the North side of Laredo.

[Balding_Eagle]

Just once I wish they would do that.

[null and void]

Me too.

[SuperLuminal]

Those old border photos at the end of the current survey ones are extremely interesting...

Seems that the Mexicans crossing , or attempting to cross, into the U.S. were substantially better off economically than today's Mexican rabble...

[lepton]

That quote by itself doesn’t say what you imply. It discusses the authority over purchased land, not the authority to purchase land.

Maybe you clipped too much?

[lepton]

With no welfare programs, people came to work and be able to support themselves. Until this election season started, even Sanders acknowledged that open borders were incompatible with social programs.

[Jim W N]

It says in order for the feds to have authority over land in a state is must first purchase that land from the state with state legislature permission.

State sovereignty is an important but ignored part of the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.