Texans on southern border vow to fight Trump's efforts to take their homes for border wall

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

This was Texas living, the Afghanistan war veteran thought, not the thin-walled apartment and constant din that aggravated the emotional scars of his work providing security for Air Force operations. Castillo and his wife bought the home using military benefits and grew their family into their new neighborhood — about half a mile from a bend in the Rio Grande, near where it ends its journey through mountains and deserts and the valley, spilling into a sandy delta at the sea.

They never imagined a border wall could dissect their property someday. But the first letter, stamped with an official government seal, arrived about a year ago. Their neighbors, the Carrascos and Trevinos, got them too.

The United States wanted permission to enter and survey their land — three homes targeted in two neighboring U-shaped Texas subdivisions — in preparation for construction of the Trump administration’s new border wall system.

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Trump aims to build 166 miles of border barrier in Texas, almost all of it slated to go on private land that the government has yet to acquire — thousands of parcels along the river, an unknown number of them occupied by their owners, including churches and single-family homes. No new border wall has been built on private land in Texas since the president took office, but land acquisition in the Rio Grande Valley is about to enter a new phase this week, as U.S. attorneys began filing initial petitions in court while making cash offers to property owners, according to Justice Department officials with knowledge of the process.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. Texas - Trump country

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Not South Texas

The border is almost solid blue.

[CanonRay]

6. You are correct of course

but having lived there for a number of years their voting focus was local elections; school board, sheriff, judges, etc. You almost never see signs for Senate or Presidential races in the valley. I wonder if this will change their focus.

[marble falls]

2. There is such a sea change growing over Trump. He's toast more and more with his supporters.

[Newest Reality]

3. Take one for the Gipper?

I mean, heck, be good loyalists and give it all for your great leader. The time has come to pay up and show you mean it by way of blood, sweat and ample tears. Fall on your swords and give your land to the cause because the wall is all. You should have known it was going to come to this. You were ready, right? Give so...ah...something...something...immigration...knows it best...etc.

Oh, and gladly pay those steep tariffs and give up your SNAP if you have it, too. Wealthy people are in need and it is up to you to make any and every sacrifice now for duty and your oligarchs! Allcash! Your intense paranoia and pathological xenophobia will be catered to and you can be sure of that.