Trump border wall: Texans receiving letters about their land

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[SpeedyInTexas]

Even before Donald Trump was inaugurated, U.S. citizens who own land along the border reportedly began receiving letters from the Justice Department informing them that the federal government wants their land to build a fence (i.e. the president’s border wall), that it intends to acquire their land, and the amount of compensation the government is offering.

[bert]

I’m a realist that has visited the area and made an engineering judgement

[bert]

I forgot.....

If you want to stop Mexicans from illegal entry crossing the river......shoot them

After a hundred are so are dead the illegal crossings will dissipate and stop

[Eleutheria5]

Obama already did that. He was deposed, but he’s trying to rally the palace guards to his cause.

[proud American in Canada]

“I’ve saw a show on TV where a landowner took his ATV out and went looking for livestock or something and stumbled into a drug deal and got killed.

Lots of Texans are worried about this crap..”

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OMG. That practically amounts to war. When people can’t even access their own property out of fear ...

I think President Trump is quite serious about stopping this garbage, though.

[manc]

agree

[PAR35]

One good sized Rez in Arizona, a smaller one in California on the Colorado river.

Simple enough. Give the tribe a choice. Give the land for the wall, or the wall will be built on the US side of the Rez, and they can show their passports to get into the rest of the US. A longer wall will cost a bit more in construction costs, but that should shorten the timeline significantly.

[BeauBo]

"I don’t believe there will ever be a fence along the southern border of Texas."

This thread is in response to the Government buying the land right now. They are also well into the contracting process for the build - initial proposals from vendors are in, and prices are due by the 24th of March. As I posted earlier, the law already authorizes it (Secure Fence Act), the surveys are complete, and the Mexican members of the Treaty Commission have already agreed to it.

It appears that the basic barrier will be thirty feet high, made of precast concrete panels, like the Israeli Peace Barrier.

[Kellis91789]

I don’t think it has anything to do with navigability. It is strictly to guarantee access to the water for irrigation and livestock, I think. Why a permeable barrier is not allowed is a mystery to me.

I think anchors screwed into the bottom of a river — those corkscrew things — 20 or 30 feet deep would be enough to hold a military link fence in place, with buoys at the surface supporting a ten foot height above the water surface. It might slow people down enough for the response team to get there before they can disappear.

[21twelve]

Thanks for the link to the maps (post 137).

I just looked at the first one. The one thing that jumps out at me is the existing barrier going straight across land rather than trying to follow the tortuous route of the meandering river. Would make the barrier three times (or more) as long in some places.

[deport]

Essentially the Rio Grande is being ceded to Mexico with the wall being on the north side. There is a map I've seen that back a few years when the Bush barriers were being discussed that shows in detail the actual border boundary. It actually doesn't follow the middle of the Rio Grande as many think but is more straight lined and thus the river meanders to both sides of the border line.

[Keyhopper]

The North American great Wall. Made in Americans by Americans 🗽

[Don Corleone]

The border is international territory; therefore it is under the domain of the Feds.

A goodly portion of that border is underwater, namely the Rio Grande.