Judge rules government can take South Texas family's land despite Biden's 'pause' on wall
AUSTIN — The government can take immediate possession of land in the town of Mission as part of the border wall even though President Joe Biden has said he does not plan to push forward with the project, a federal judge in South Texas has ruled.
"The Court grants the United States’ motion and orders all people or entities in possession or control of the Subject Property to surrender possession or control of said property to the extent of the estate being condemned to the United States, immediately," U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez wrote in her ruling handed down this week.
The ruling came in response to the government's motion filed during the waning days of the Trump administration in a case involving about 6.6 acres of a larger tract along the Rio Grande owned by Baudilia Cavazos.
The family is "utterly devastated" by the court's action, Cavazos said.
"We thought President Joe Biden would protect us," she said. "Now we’ve lost our land. We don’t even know what comes next.”
Read more: https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2021/04/15/texas-eminent-domain-judge-rules-against-family-biden-border-wall/7235335002/
(Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
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