LMTonline by Julia Wallace 5/11/2020
City makes compelling argument as government motions to seize land for border wall
The City of Laredo has established an adroit argument in response to the federal government’s motion to immediately seize the miles of land they own along the Rio Grande in order to one day build a border wall: that this action is simply congressionally unauthorized.
If their argument proves sound before a judge, this would not only be an unprecedented win against the federal government in a right of entry case, it would also be an applicable defense for the rest of the landowners fighting against the wall in the Laredo Sector, which spans Webb and Zapata counties.
In a motion filed on Monday in Magistrate Judge John A. Kazen’s court, the city argues that in all the ways the border wall has been funded, the money has never been expressly appropriated for a wall in the Laredo Sector.
“Congress has not directed the Government to construct fencing in the Laredo Sector. To the contrary, it has limited the Government’s fencing-construction authority to locations outside of the Laredo Sector,†reads the city’s response.
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