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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:00 AM Mar 2017

Trump is going to have to sue Americans in order to build his border wall


Ana Campoy
@ana_campoy_
OBSESSION

Borders
3 hours ago

There’s a reason why a big portion of the US-Mexico border remains unfenced: People live there.

The largest gap in existing border fencing is in Texas, where much of the land across the river from Mexico is privately owned. In order to build his promised border wall, US president Donald Trump is going to have to convince those landowners to sell their property, or push them out.

The Trump administration has already sent condemnation notices to some Texas residents whose properties back the Rio Grande. One of them was offered $2,900 for 1.2 acres that have been in her family for generations, the Texas Observer reports.

Not everyone will want to cede their land, or have their backyards intersected by a 30-foot wall, so the Trump administration is gearing up for court battles. In his budget proposal to Congress last week, the president requested funding for 20 additional lawyers (pdf) at the Department of Justice to secure the sites to build his wall.

More:
https://qz.com/937054/trump-is-going-to-have-to-sue-americans-in-order-to-build-his-border-wall/
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Trump is going to have to sue Americans in order to build his border wall (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2017 OP
A thirty foot prison wall. Lovely. Blues Heron Mar 2017 #1
Time to start selling 32 foot ladders world wide wally Mar 2017 #3
Can you imagine? Cracklin Charlie Mar 2017 #4
That ought to tie the whole wall issue up in court for a decade. hedda_foil Mar 2017 #2

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
4. Can you imagine?
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 12:08 PM
Mar 2017

How hideous this thing will be?

Desert ecosystems are very fragile. They lack the healing capabilities of rainfall, seasonal renewal of leaf and seed drop, and vegetative cover to provide protection for arid soil. A law should be passed in Congress to prevent this preposterous nonsense.

Trump's "Great Wall" needs to go the way of Trump's "religious ban" and all his other ludicrous brain farts.

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