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Title: Trump Supporters Furious The Border Wall Will Put Their Houses On The Mexico Side
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Counter Current News
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2017/ ... eir-houses-on-the-mexico-side/
Published: Apr 4, 2017
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2017-04-05 09:49:26 by Deckard
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Comments: 15
In a case of catastrophic cognitive dissonance, some Trump supporters in Texas have finally realized their vote for the president may force some of them out of their homes for less than they are worth. While others have discovered they will be living on the Mexico side of the wall.
As part of a CNN special report on the impact the wall between the U.S. and Mexico will have on border dwellers in the state that went overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump, the network found there is already an extensive history of government lawsuits filed to take property from homeowners. With Trump’s wall planned for the entire border, some of his supporters are now saying they will fight his administration in the courts, reported Raw Story.
According to one family who had their farm cut in half, part of it in the U.S., part of it in Mexico, they are still stunned that government was able to take their property 10 years ago.
“I was very angry, I just kept saying, how can they do that? How is that possible in the United States that they can do this?” D’Ann Loop of Brownsville recalled. “They put up a fence in front of our land and then keep us in here — lock us in. I didn’t understand. I was very — I was floored and flabbergasted.”
Loop says they brought the case to court, but lost and now all their land is on the Mexico side of the wall.
“It left us no property on the U.S. side of the border wall, including my house,” she explained. “Everything was behind — on the Mexican side of the U.S. border fence,” with her husband adding they enter the U.S. through a locked gate.
“You punch your code in or you come behind the border wall, there is a feeling of isolation,” Ray Loop explained.
With hundreds of additional miles of Trump’s proposed wall expected to be built in along the Texas border, thousands of land owners may be be forced to sell their property to the government or stay and live in changed circumstances, reported Raw Story.
According to Pat Bell of River Bend, she voted for Trump but never supported his border wall plan. She may get a lawyer to try to stop her house from being on the other side of the wall, but it is likely she will lose in court.
“Absolutely I would go to the people who are in charge and, you hate to say I would get a lawyer, but if it comes to that issue, you would,” she explained. (1 image)
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If you buy cheap land directly on a border that has a history of changing hands, you shouldn't be too shocked if they move a border or construct a legitimate border wall.
The border with Mexico is far too fluid. It needs to be finally settled as a matter of law, regardless of where the river meanders. These are far from the only cases of border land ownership disputes.
#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)
If you buy cheap land directly on a border that has a history of changing hands, you shouldn't be too shocked if they move a border or construct a legitimate border wall.
I'm guessing that ownership of at least some of these lands goes back generations.
#8. To: Deckard, Tooconservative (#3)
If the land is on the border its worth nothing so be happy you get a dime.
You can't have it both ways of I want a wall but not on my land!!
You always see this when people think they can gouge the govenrment(we the people) to get abnormal price for their worthless land.
At least this is not some corporation take the land dirt cheap and make a killing off improving it.
BTW how is this hurting them when it should make the land worth more because now they have a real border?
#9. To: Justified, Deckard (#8)
This is an exercise of the most legitimate use of eminent domain. There can be no higher federal use than a border wall or fence to protect the territory of America. No bridge or highway or military base ranks as high as protecting the integrity of the nation's border.
This is eminent domain with clear national security implications.
#10. To: Tooconservative (#9)
I agree. This is one of the few case where 'government' is in the right and you will not hear me say that often.
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