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Eminent Domain
" the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation."
So, someone must have clued Trump in about this and the years and dollars it will take to acquire all the land needed for his precious wall. I suspect that is one of the reasons he is talking about a "State of Emergency" at the southern border.
The fact is that he knows, his people know and Congress knows that this wall thing is a farce. But they'll take peoples' land, give them shit in compensation, and never build the damn wall.
I'm waiting for the Trump supporting land owners in the path of this wall wake up and realize that they're screwed if Trump gets his way.
