It is show time for the property disputes.
Expect deep pocketed Leftist organizations, like Soros, to finance the legal bills of those opposing and even pay them off to not sell. The media will portray eminent domain acquisitions as an evil administration bullying poor land owners to satisfy Trump’s fantasy.
The US already owns a 60 foot easement along the entire border per a federal law signed by T. Roosevelt in 1907.
This is actually a constitutional use of eminent domain.
IMPEACH!
“The owner was offered $93,449 in compensation for the land. “
Appears, on the surface, to be a fair price for 13 acres in Texas river bank.
The reason many of these landowners are resisting is because they don’t want a barrier between their property and Mexico. The cartels pay them well for access.
Don’t kid yourselves. Corruption doesn’t stop at the border. Most landowners near the border are good guys, but there are a few that have sympathies with the other side, and are well paid to not look out the front window sometimes.
Talk to any Border Patrol man down there and you’ll hear stories. The USBP has a right to patrol on ranches down there, but they do not have a right to have a horse, an ATV, a Jeep or a Truck. Some landowners forbid anything but an agent on foot as a way to help the bad guys. Some of those places are damned big, and some of the owners last names end in Z.
they should be carful, in a land dispute with an old woman who refused to sell her tiny little house to Trump so he could build his casino in Atlantic City, he just built the casino with a notch in it that went around her house.
Actually that’s a true story but it wasn’t Trump, it was the playboy casino. But Trump bought that for pennies on the dollar when Playboy was struggling and people began attributing that story to Trump because it seemed like something he’d do. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the one who kept the story alive.
FYI, the first condemnation under eminent domain to build the Trump-era border wall was filed Friday. The owner refused their compensation offer.
We saw reports that the Government was preparing for a wave of these. More will likely come this week. December/January could possibly be the peak of the effort for the Rio Grande Valley.
Over a hundred miles of barrier has been put on contract for the Rio Grande Valley Sector, and they want it basically finished by then end of 2020.
About 400 private landowners must be settled with, or have their land condemned to give contractors enough time to complete their work on schedule.
I don’t know how many have already settled. I heard the President mention months ago that they had front-loaded the land acquisition efforts, and had already made good progress, but push is about to come to shove for the holdouts. They can argue about the price after the barrier is built.
The linked article is mostly Leftist whining over evil Trump injuring the innocent landowners - but it was the first report I saw of the threshold being crossed for condemnations.
We are off to races buttoning up the Rio Grande Valley - the main battle of the war to secure the border. Everything else will be easier/faster/cheaper, and less important, after the RGV.
Texans fighting Texans.
We threw Rick Perry out of office (Abbot is still an improvement for all his flaws) and we’ll take care of these open borders shitbags too.
The offer is almost 8k per acre..... seems above reasonable to me
People in our area lost paid for homes to build a damned football stadium for the Cowboys. You’re losing your ranch land so we can build a wall to protect the country.
Pretty cut and dry in SCOTUS decisions... Any land within 100 miles of the border can be seized by the federal government for any purpose they deem required to provide for national security.
Come on, liberals, challenge it and open the door to reexaminations of such crappy SCOTUS decisions such as one man one vote and Roe v Wade...
Remember, under W., it was TX. Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson who allowed landowners to sue.
If your a border state, the cartel money is much greater.
Say you got a ranch on the border.
A cartel contact offers you a million to fight your government...
property owners have no chance in an eminent domain case
I grew up along the border in the Rio Grande Valley, so I’m getting a kick out of these replies. Truth is the Valley is the most deep blue of areas in the state - more deep blue even than Austin. It’s been a Democratic bastion for decades. There’s no way Trump will get that land without really extensive litigation.
“Texans fight”.... whatever.
That’s what they do!