Posted on 02/28/2022 7:17:45 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
DEL RIO, Texas — Texas ranchers are rejecting an offer from the federal government to cover property damages resulting from illegal immigration and drug smuggling, fearing the aid will come with strings attached and won't help with the underlying problems at the border.
A Department of Agriculture initiative to pay landowners across the state for a wide array of losses they sustained due to a surge in trespassers traveling from the border north into Texas is being met with skepticism and calls for President Joe Biden to secure the border.
Under the Environmental Quality Incentive Program, the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service began last week allowing farmers and ranchers to claim reimbursements for more than two dozen types of costs sustained, including fencing repairs, livestock fatalities, irrigation, and crop planting, through July 5. The service has not disclosed how much funding it will make available or how many people it expects to apply to the new program.
But at least some of the intended beneficiaries aren't buying in to the program.
“It looks good on paper. It looks good in the media,” said rancher John Paul Schuster. “But in reality, it's not servicing us right now.”
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Camel...Nose...Tent............................
Building a 20 tall erosion wall with the dollars sent seems the right thing to do.
I wish they would all go to congress and inform Biden and the low,info voters that voted for him, and inform the scum rinks that drive Trump out of office by turning a Blind eye to fraud, that there wouldn’t be any damages if he would secure the border! Make sure,to,give lots,of interviews afterwards with major new sites that explain that the Biden admin has created a massive massive problem, and now they want to give ranchers hush money to shut them up about the increasing problem and danger to,this country!
There are always strings attached.
The feds don’t have enough money to cover the damages Biden and his stooge crew has caused.
Now Putin has hand on button.
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