Biden DOJ Wins Lawsuit to Seize 260-Year-Old Texas Ranch Along Border

Breitbart ^ | 04/15/2021 | Bob Price

[unixfox]

Not only is it time.

It’s WAY past time.

[sport]

Nope.

[Stingray51]

This is exactly what eminent domain is for. The nation needs secure borders. No one property owner has the right to obstruct that. The property owner does have the right to just compensation for the land taken. Hopefully, he receives that

[TBP]

Maybe they were afraid the Cavazos family would wall their property?

[blueplum]

was the Spanish Land Grant ever converted or recognized as a US land grant? If not, he’s been squatting for 200 years on land won from/ceded by a foreign govt - twice (Spain/Mexico)

[SuzyQue]

Exactly.

I think this story may be just a tiny bit slanted. (eyes rolling)

The area that they are talking about is now mostly semi-urban and a part of the greater McAllen area. It is also a well-traveled area - back and forth, across the Rio Grande.

It would be pointless to build walls and leave this access area open.

I have no idea what the motivation of the Biden people is, but it should have a wall there.

[jdsteel]

You use your tongue better than a $20 whore.

[Rusty0604]

A Hispanic not a Mexican.

“the family which has owned the land since 1760.”

[Rusty0604]

Texas rancher Fred Cavazon has been fighting to keep control of his 6.584 acre ranch along the Texas-Mexico border since the administration of then-President George W. Bush. The fight continued during the Trump administration, Law & Crime reported.

[Rusty0604]

The family owned the land since 1760.

[Rusty0604]

Instead of a wall Biden probably wants to build bridges.

[Rusty0604]

like Kelo.

[semimojo]

Texas rancher Fred Cavazon has been fighting to keep control of his 6.584 acre ranch along the Texas-Mexico border since the administration of then-President George W. Bush.

"The Cavazos family has laid a claim to property in the Rio Grande since the 1760s, when their ancestors arrived on a Spanish land grant of more than half a million acres. Various sales and taxes eventually shrank down the area, including to a 77-acre ranch now mostly used to raise cattle and chickens and rented out for recreational fishing.

During George W. Bush’s second term, federal officials began seizing private land in the Rio Grande Valley to wall off this part of the border, a common crossing point for migrants. In 2008, Anzaldua Cavazos reached a compromise on plans at a separate piece of family land up the river, pushing back the wall onto nearby flood levees.

But by the time Trump assumed office, securing millions of dollars in funding from Congress for a border wall, the ranch became a target. The family was flooded with letters from the federal government, asking to survey and eventually purchase a slice of the property.

Like many other landowners in the area, they kept saying no. So the Trump administration turned to the courts, filing in August to seize part of the property under eminent domain.

Authorities launched similar condemnation efforts on land throughout the region during Trump’s last full month in office. By the time Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20, more than 215 landowners in the Rio Grande Valley were facing suits from the federal government, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project."

[Rusty0604]

Thanks.