Quote:That question never came up because none of them (nor I) are foolish enough to think that the government would ever offer market price for the land when they can just claim eminent domain and pay pennies on the dollar for it.

 

Even if the government had offered full market price, I doubt the land would have been freely given up. Again, most of those people have been there for generations, and that land is worth more than $X per acre to them.

What area of land are we talking about here?  100 feet from the border or 100 acres?  From my perspective if I owned say 50 acres of boarder land and the Feds wanted to come in and procure 100 feet from that boarder into my property for the sake of securing that boarder and were offering fair market value I would be all in.  All in as long as they actually secured that said border.  If it were more of the same old lip service about securing boarders then no I am not in.  From what I have read these landowners have to put up with a lot of unnecessary crap from these criminals crossing our boarders illegally
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