Posted on 04/14/2020 7:00:46 AM PDT by BeauBo
Pandemic or not, Border Patrol intends to award the contract to construct the initial 32 miles of border wall in the Laredo area by mid-May...
When construction begins will depend on how much land is acquired.
“So we won’t necessarily be acquiring all of the land to start the project, but we need to acquire sufficient real estate to allow the project to start,” he said.
Federal agents have been working to convince local landowners to sign right of entry documents so that they can survey their properties without having to go through court proceedings, saving time and possibly leading to a speedier condemnation or acquisition of land... Landowners have basically no power at all to fight this ask by the feds...
However there remains a cohort of property owners who on principle will not sign over the right of entry and would rather take the case to federal court.
These hearings are not being postponed due to the coronavirus.
(Excerpt) Read more at lmtonline.com ...
Getting Laredo done, is kind of a big deal.
Laredo is the biggest city on the border without barrier - the last frontier for the old style of drug running (having teenagers carry backpacks over, and be back home in time for dinner).
Laredo is the next stop upriver from what is now the biggest illegal gateway into the USA, the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector. RGV is already contracted for closure, so that traffic would likely divert around through Laredo, if it Laredo is not walled off. North from Laredo, there is a long run of rural land, the first 52 miles of which is also already slated to get new Wall System.
Nuevo Laredo (on the Mexican side from Laredo), is a famously violent center of cartel activity.
The wall may actually make Laredo a livable place
Texas and AZ first. That should be the baked in policy. We lose Texas it’s over. Every in those two states first. With apologies to our good friends in Freemont.
Almost too late for Arizona. I feel like a stranger in my own state.
“The wall may actually make Laredo a livable place”
Every time there is a significant barrier upgrade in a border city, local property values go up, and crime drops.
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