And in Arizona the Tohono O’odham Tribe has 75 miles of border with Mexico and they don’t even allow Border Patrol to enter their land.
These lands will have to be purchased before a fence can be erected on these properties.
An Associated Press analysis of court documents last year found that when homeowners reject the feds' initial offers to buy their borderlands, the cost skyrockets. The Nature Conservancy balked at an offer of $114,000 for a fence on its land in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, and ultimately settled for $1 million. A developer in Brownsville, Texas, was offered $233,000 but ended up with $4.7 million three years later
Fine - build the border wall on the north side of these guys property. So they get to enjoy being on the south side of The Wall.
A lot of that desert land is next to worthless. This is what 5th amendment eminent domain was meant to address.
It isn’t enough that we shipped a lot of our jobs south (Carrier air conditioning in my neighborhood, putting hundreds of Hoosiers out of work): remittances are Mehseeco’s biggest source of income.
Mexico can pay fair market value for the land, they can pay to build the damn wall 30 feet high, to keep out their people, and they get to pay to maintain it as well.
Despite what American’ts say.
I’ve got two words:
Eminent domain. If there is a good use for E.D., this is it.
Things are now greatly improved in the working relationship between the Tohono O’odham reservation and the U.S. Border Patrol.
“Tohono O’odham Find Common Ground with Border Patrol”
https://news.azpm.org/p/arizona-news/2016/2/17/82133-tohono-oodham-nation-finds-common-ground-with-border-patrol/
Whether there would ever be a 35-40 foot wall across 75 miles of sovereign tribal land is an unknown at this point in time.
I guess those speculators on the border are going to get a lesson or two regarding who owns the land necessary to assuring the security of the United States then...