WASHINGTON - The government is readying 102 court cases against landowners in Arizona, California and Texas for blocking efforts to select sites for a fence along the Mexican border.
The Bush administration wants to build 370 miles of fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, but a number of property owners have refused the government access to their land.
On my little acre I have easements that will last forever for the lights, gas, water and other companies to put whatever they want across my land... power lines, water lines, telephone lines, that sort of thing,
Seems to me that the government should have automatic rights along our national borders to put up a fence if they want to. You know, an easement kind of thing.
Must be Mexicans - legal or otherwise - that own those contested pieces of property, and want to keep the back door wide open for their friends and relatives. Mexicans, or American citizens with Mexican spouses. And I'll bet it's one or more of those Mexican organizations like La Raza or LULAC, or the ACLU, that's fighting the feds.
If the land along our national borders doesn't constitute Public Domain, I can't imagine what does... at least enough of it to put a fence and access road on.
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Court cases? Why bother. Just emminent domain it and get on with it.
It's probably the cheapest land that any government will be taking this year.
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