Posted on 03/15/2017 7:21:55 PM PDT by 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.
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If there ever was a ‘public purpose’ like Ike’s interstate highway system, this is it.
People complained they would have trouble if I-70 ran through their land, so they built bridges.
The cattle will get watered. If they are using the same amount of water and Mexico complains, we’ll just shoot them.
““Didn’t Obama take a bunch of land by declaring it a monument or something?”
Were the land owners compensated?”
No, he just declared existing Federal Land a National Monument.
The Great Wall is certainly on my bucket list. I haven't been to china yet, but I look forward to seeing it. I hope some of the 'past' is protected. I know lots of places are moved aside for the 'better'. I think some of the old holdouts are called 'nail houses'.
We could just take Mexico...
They should offer property tax breaks for the lifetime of the current owner. They sell or move off - lose the tax break. THAT will work.
Yea. Everything he did would be for America.
Same here! I’ve about had it with the traitors in Congress
Folks are getting lazy with this yelling “Fake News” at every article they disagree with. Makes our side look like morons.
Pretty sure if he ordered the military to dispel congress that they have become traitors to the American people that enough would follow the order.
I still live in Texas and your post is 100% correct. Any land taken will be fairly compensated for. Your remaining land will then become more valuable as violent criminals will no longer be crossing it. If you have land on the border and do not wish a wall you are part of a criminal enterprise.
Ditto. When it comes to national security-and the constant invasion qualifies - it trumps a few individuals’ rights.
Besides I can’t believe there are no rights of ingress and egress for a border.
I wouldn’t want it. We’re trying to get rid of the entitlement-grabbing third world mobs, not get more
They'll do it for everything that Trump does, especially on illegal immigration.
Trump needs to start now to ignore such BS rulings.
Most of our southwest border is already federal property—except Texas.
They may have to be reminded that they are still one of the 57 states ... the stubborn cusses.
Yeah, that might be a good inducement: like a nonconforming use that is amortised out or lost when abandoned.
I would volunteer to tell their land commissioner that they can’t depend on that income for a few years.
As well as a bunch of ocean.
Build the wall down the
middle of the river, or
on the border line.
I could be done....
Hence, emanate domain
is not required.
Why give the river to Mexico?
Looks like only one tribe has land on the border - the Tohono O’odham in Arizona. They have about 70 miles, of reasonably flat, open terrain (including a few mountainous parts). No major road crossings, but there are likely dirt roads that you could drive.
This area would be in Phase Three of the wall construction anyway. The first two phases are the high traffic areas - those urbanized areas that straddle the border, like San Diego, El Paso, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley (McAllen and Brownsville). That is where there will be the most and biggest property claims to settle.
No doubt many land owners will try to game the system by lawyering up and trying to drive the price up, but ultimately the Government can just take it and decide what they will pay. My understanding is that they plan to be more generous than the last time we were fence building - property owners got short shrift then.
I hope that they accommodate ranchers with irrigation water as well, but I don’t know.
The Texas Observer reported on Los Ebanos that: "The surveying and planning work has already been done, and the Secure Fence Act authorizes more border fencing to be built. And in 2012, the United States half of the International Boundary and Water Commission, a binational organization tasked with managing the U.S.-Mexico water treaty, capitulated to lobbying by DHS and agreed to a wall in the floodplain."
Here is her backyard, abutting the Rio Grande:
You are welcome, FRiend!!
God bless you and yours!
Julie. :)
lol. Obummer pretty much was one so why not?
We all let it happen.
I had a co worker who worked for Strom Thurmond WAY back.
He was given a credit card and told to use it and not worry about what he racked up.
We let them become kinds and queens.
Hard to change that.
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