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Brownsville Herald by Mark Reagan 6/10/2019

For the first time in years, the United States government has filed land condemnation cases against the owners of two properties in Cameron County.

In the past few weeks, federal attorneys filed two lawsuits seeking access to land south of the western edge of Brownsville and in the town of San Pedro.

The lawsuits state that Border Patrol is seeking access to the properties for the purposes of surveying, and testing for proposed construction of roads, fencing, vehicle barriers, security lighting, cameras, sensors and related structures for securing the border.

The suit targets 114.14 acres of land and lists the State of Texas, Wanda Hollon and Robert R. Mathers as defendants. The other action is against .9987 acres of land owned by Salvador J. Castillo and Yvette Arroyo.

More: https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/border-issue-gov-files-condemnation-lawsuits-against-landowners/article_b4ffadf4-8975-11e9-b8f8-c3ad50635533.html

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Re: Border Issue: Gov. files condemnation lawsuits against landowners
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2019, 07:23:11 pm »
While anyone that has to go thru condemnation should be agitated rightly so, owning land near any border should be realized by an owner as potentially at risk for obvious reasons.
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Re: Border Issue: Gov. files condemnation lawsuits against landowners
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2019, 10:15:02 pm »
The government is doing the right thing here.

I sense the landowners, for whatever reasons, have not granted the use of the property.
Could be "political reasons" involved.
If that's what they want, so be it.

There is an important "public purpose" for which it needs to be "taken" -- a border wall.

Compensate them adequately, but TAKE THEIR PROPERTY.

Any questions...?

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Re: Border Issue: Gov. files condemnation lawsuits against landowners
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2019, 10:35:55 pm »
The government is doing the right thing here.

I sense the landowners, for whatever reasons, have not granted the use of the property.
Could be "political reasons" involved.
If that's what they want, so be it.

There is an important "public purpose" for which it needs to be "taken" -- a border wall.

Compensate them adequately, but TAKE THEIR PROPERTY.

Any questions...?
This is a total of 115 total acres for an obvious public purpose.

I wonder if there was such agitation by landowners when Obama seized 553,000,000 acres for a much less obvious public purpose ie parks and monuments?

Obama Sets Record for Federal Land and Water Seizures
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President Barack Obama has set a new record for the amount of land and water seized by a single chief executive: over 553 million acres, or about 865,000 square miles. That’s 30 percent more acreage than the entire state of Alaska and over three times the size of Texas.

Nearly half of that acreage — 260 million acres — was seized in 2016 as Obama undertook what his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, called “audacious executive action” in an attempt to circumvent Congress. Last week, Obama designated over 1.3 million acres in Utah as the Bears Ears National Monument and 300,000 acres in Nevada as the Gold Butte National Monument. In late August, he quadrupled the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, an area off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine reserve — a move that could cost local fishermen $10 million a year by preventing them from fishing in those waters. In February, the president took 1.8 million acres of California to create three new national monuments. In addition, his Fish and Wildlife Service commandeered portions of Alaska equivalent to the size of New Mexico over the course of six months.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/25073-obama-sets-record-for-federal-land-and-water-seizures
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