Very possibly. Many politicians were getting big $$ from cartels to keep the border open for drug and human trafficking; why not landowners?
Another favorite trick is the environment. You can’t build a wall because some endangered species will be lost. That is one of their old favorites. If that doesn’t work you can try, it will harm the Indians, the Hispanics, the blacks etc.
Did you know that the democrats have 600 lawyers ready to go this election? How much are they charging by the hour? Who is paying? My guess is you and me are paying because one way or the other the democrats always manage to stick it to the tax payer. How many lawyers have they used to keep the border open? The democrats are the biggest thieves. They are criminals and the Republicans have been complicit or scared of them or both.
The democrats scheme is to take billions of dollars under some vague but pleasant sounding title. The money gets divided at the states level to all of their activists, lawyers, do gooders, black lives matter, community organizers, agitators etc. etc. This is where the dirty work gets done away from the public eye. We don’t even know where our money goes. And of course these activists send some of that money back as donations to the democrat party. Remember when Pelosi gave millions of dollars to planned parenthood then planned parenthood gave some of it back to the democrats as campaign donations? Our tax money was given to the democrat party which is illegal.
That trick with planned parenthood reveals how the democrats do this. They are deliberately vague to cover up what they are really doing then the democrat groups pay back the politicians with some of the money they were given. You scratch my back I’ll scratch yours. This is how they have built an empire with the taxpayers money. And it is all aimed at getting more money and power for them and their allies.