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Do you know where the border actually is in many southwestern states?
I bet it's not where you think it is.
Doesn't matter, the border is Federal property. No private person owns any of it. If they have grabbed the land illegally, which I bet many have and are claiming grandfathering rights to the land, it can be taken back.
1. Where are you getting your facts about eminent domain? The reason why I ask is that I have had it happen and it wasn't pennies on the dollar and as far as I know the laws are written in such a way that they cannot do that. From what I understand they can force you to sell, but cannot just rip you off. In my particular case it was like winning the lottery as far as what they payed and not that big of a deal.
It didn't take years of negotiation.
How many are on the Mexico side of the fence? If the government has to purchase their homes to make it up to them in order to keep all of us safe I'm still for this wall.
A rather conservative source reported differently several years ago:
"The disparities raise questions about the Justice Department’s treatment of hundreds of landowners from Texas to California who couldn’t afford lawyers and must now live with a massive steel barrier running through their farms, ranches and yards.
The wide variation in price “underscores how unfair these original offers were,” said attorney Corinna Spencer-Scheurich, who represented poor and middle-class landowners when the seizures began."
Doesn't matter, the border is Federal property. No private person owns any of it. If they have grabbed the land illegally, which I bet many have and are claiming grandfathering rights to the land, it can be taken back.
They have drones, tunnels, boats, mini subs, and so forth. With all the money going to the wall probably less will go to border patrol; People will eventually find a way over no way to control that if it occurs.
Money shold be invested in expanding border patrol.
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