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    TX. With border wall, property rights are cast aside

    With border wall, property rights are cast aside

    Express-News Editorial Board
    Published 5:38 pm CDT, Friday, August 17, 2018




    United States Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks to the local news media against the backdrop of the border wall Dec 13, 2017, in Hidalgo, Texas. She said she wanted more wall built soon — apparently regardless of whether it cuts up private property.


    When people think of Texas, they think of a larger-than-life state. It’s a landscape of open expanses and unlimited opportunity. A state defined by brash politicians and oil booms. Home to soulful country music and Friday night lights.

    An integral part of that tapestry is fierce protection of property rights. Search Google or comb through newspaper archives and you can find plenty of Texas politicians invoking private property rights.


    “The Right to property is one of the most basic rights of Americans, and it has empowered pioneers to create opportunity and fuel commerce since the founding of our nation,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz wrote on Facebook in 2014.

    He was speaking against Bureau of Land Management action on the Red River.


    National Guards at the border would help out with "surveillance, back office tasks...and potentially build infrastructure," says Ted Hesson, Immigration Reporter at Politico. President Trump announced this week plans to deploy up to 4,000 National Guard members to the southern border with Mexico to control the flow of immigrants coming into the America.

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    And here’s an excerpt from an op-ed Gov. Greg Abbott penned for the Austin American-Statesman in 2017:

    “While we rightly rail against overreach by the federal government — like the previous administration’s attempt to take away rights from Texas landowners by regulating ponds and ditches on private land — local municipalities are increasingly infringing on private property rights and driving up costs for homeowners, renters and job-creating businesses alike.”


    We could go on, but you get the point. Texans care about private property rights — except, apparently, on the U.S.-Mexico border.

    For whatever reason, such deep respect for private property rights seems to go out the window when it comes to plans for 25 miles of border levee barrier in Hidalgo County and another 8 miles in Starr County. This is a small piece of President Donald Trump’s border wall, which will cut right through private property about a mile north of the border.


    “I think Washington politicians, including some of our Texas senators and congressmen, are accomplishing what Gen. Santa Anna couldn’t do, and that is establishing the border north of the Rio Grande River,” Becky Jones, whose family farm will be spliced by the wall, told us earlier this summer.

    Jones and her brother, Frank J. Schuster, own about 700 acres near McAllen that sit next to the Rio Grande. Their father purchased the original parcel of land in 1948 with his military savings, and over time he pieced together other parcels.


    The family’s farm sits next to the 2,088-acre Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge where there won’t be a wall.


    Doesn’t seem to make much sense.


    Like many landowners along the border in South Texas, Jones has worried about what life will be like on the south side of the wall. Will family members or employees be safe?

    Will they have adequate protection? Gates will be used to allow access to private property on the south side of the wall, and she has wondered if those who know the gate codes will be targets for those who want to pass through for nefarious reasons.


    Similar concerns abound at the National Butterfly Center, where about 70 percent of the property would be on the south side of the wall.


    It’s not that property owners near the border don’t want security. Of course, they do. But there are ways to provide security without building a wall. The “smart wall” plan from U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican who represents a different part of the Texas-Mexico border, comes to mind. That plan relies on technology, sensors and manpower to address security concerns.


    The absurdity of the border wall speaks for itself.


    It will cut off precious wildlife corridors. It will harm relations with Mexico, one of our most important allies and trading partners. And it will cut through private property a mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border, putting houses and farms and Americans on the south side of the wall.


    This is nonsense and it represents quite the opposition of respect for property rights.

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    "It will harm relations with Mexico, "

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    LOL...WHAT relations with Mexico? That they have their grubby paws out for our money and dump their people over our border!

    Mexico can be offended...sell out, pack up and go HOME!

    I find it offensive they continue to dump their people on our backs and not take care of their own.

    I find it offensive they do not classify their gangs and cartel as domestic terrorists and start giving them the death penalty.

    I find it offensive they have no pride in themselves, their country or culture, continue to breed in the dirt and dump their problems on us.



    BUILD THE WALL WHERE WE CAN AND BYPASS THOSE TRYING TO OBSTRUCT AND COMPLAIN FROM THESE PRIVATE OWNERS.

    WHEN THESE CRIMINALS GET FUNNELED THROUGH THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY THEY WILL BE BEGGING FOR THE WALL.

    JUST SET UP BORDER PATROL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THEIR PROPERTY LINES AND CATCH THEM ALL!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post

    The family’s farm sits next to the 2,088-acre Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge where there won’t be a wall.


    Congress moves to block border wall in key wildlife refuge
    Tal Kopan
    By Vanessa Yurkevich and Tal Kopan, CNN


    Updated 3:20 PM ET, Tue March 27, 2018


    Washington (CNN)The $1.3 trillion spending bill that would fund the government through September -- and has President Donald Trump's support -- has the first money to build new border fencing under the Trump administration, but also puts a piece of the border in Texas off limits.


    A provision would block construction through the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, a critical section of the border where Trump's Department of Homeland Security initially wanted to put an early stage of his border wall.


    Overall, the bill includes $1.6 billion for border barriers and technology -- including new construction for the first time since Trump took office.
    But Santa Ana was one of the first places Trump's wall was set to be built, something the bill would halt. The bill would also restrict the kind of construction that can be done to only existing fencing -- allowing Democrats to claim they blocked the President's "wall" and Republicans to claim they have begun the wall. Most of the allocated monies go to replacement fencing, as well.


    The President still touted the border wall funding despite the exemption, tweeting, in part: "Got $1.6 billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming."


    Donald J. Trump

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    Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year...most ever. Had to waste money on Dem giveaways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment.


    11:00 PM - Mar 21, 2018

    The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    For the past year, environmental groups have been protesting the proposed wall, which was set to run through all 3.1 miles of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.


    "The bill is very explicit in keeping any new border walls from going up in Santa Ana," said Scott Nicol, co-chairman of the Sierra Club Borderlands. "I think we were successful in making walling off Santa Ana politically toxic."

    The refuge is in Hidalgo County, Texas, and sits on the border of the US and Mexico right on the Rio Grande. Last year, US Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 137,000 people in the area -- making it the highest trafficked place on the southern border.

    But the refuge is 2,000 acres of protected federal land home to nearly 200 species, including some that are endangered, like the ocelot. There are only 50 of the small jaguar-like cats left in the United States, and the remaining population is entirely in Southeast Texas. Barriers, roads, and population explosion has led to a significant loss of the ocelot's habitat and has made it difficult for the species to thrive and breed. Some environmentalist argue if a wall were to go up in Santa Ana, it could lead to the extinction of the ocelot in the US.


    The Santa Ana border wall was set to be a pilot project for other sections of the border because the land could be easily acquired and built on as it is federally owned.


    While the the miles of Santa Ana will be safe, the spending bill calls for nearly $641 million for 25 miles of new fencing on both sides of the refuge. That will join the 22 miles of existing nearby fencing.


    "They would run levee walls all the way up to Santa Ana, and then run the walls all the way on the other side -- so basically Santa Ana would be like a three mile hole in a 50 mile wall," said Nicol.
    Other border areas
    Environmental groups were concerned the Department of Homeland Security would wave environmental protection laws in Santa Ana as the agency has done in three other places along the border under the Trump administration: San Diego, Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Calexico, California.
    But the bill calls for a "consultation of environmental impact" with the Secretary of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency before any walls are built along the Southwest border, while making specific mention of Santa Ana.


    The spending bill also includes $679 million for 14 miles of replacement fencing in San Diego.


    Last week the Trump made his first visit to California and visited the eight border wall prototypes. He mentioned he liked a "see through" wall so border patrol agents could see through to the other side, something border security experts have advocated. But none of the prototypes will be usable under the omnibus restrictions.
    Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the location of the fencing next to the Santa Ana wildlife refuge and where the bill would authorize new construction.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/border-wall-omnibus-santa-ana-wildlife-refuge/index.html
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    Bypass these roadblocks for now! There are hundreds of miles to be built...get on it!

    Come back to this section later.

    Those people will be BEGGING for it to be built when all these illegal parasites know they can cut through there!

    They will trample and destroy that wildlife refuge in NO time!

    "Refuge" for WHO? Wildlife or illegal aliens who TRASH our borders and our land!
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