MrRodgers
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A new study of border takings under the 2006 Secure Fence Act finds that many owners get inadequate compensation, and that the condemnation process is flawed in other ways.
Making America 'white' again, will cost money and piss off a lot of land owners. Yep, that Trump guy, he's just like me and you, out for the little guy helping all he can and cleaning out the swamp alright.
Just 'give' the govt. your land...or else. You don't want to read these lowlights. Plus, we aren't up to the wall yet, we're still looking to replace fence from 2006. Headache on top of headache and the general incompetence.
Homeland Security circumvented laws designed to help landowners receive fair compensation. The agency did not conduct formal appraisals of targeted parcels. Instead, it issued low-ball offers based on substandard estimates of property values.
Larger, wealthier property owners who could afford lawyers negotiated deals that, on average, tripled the opening bids from Homeland Security. Smaller and poorer landholders took whatever the government offered — or wrung out small increases in settlements. The government conceded publicly that landowners without lawyers might wind up shortchanged, but did little to protect their interests.
The Justice Department bungled hundreds of condemnation cases. The agency took property without knowing the identity of the actual owners. It condemned land without researching facts as basic as property lines. Landholders spent tens of thousands of dollars to defend themselves from the government's mistakes.
The government had to redo settlements with landowners after it realized it had failed to account for the valuable water rights associated with the properties, an oversight that added months to the compensation process.
On occasion, Homeland Security paid people for property they did not actually own. The agency did not attempt to recover the misdirected taxpayer funds, instead paying for land a second time once it determined the correct owners.
Nearly a decade later, scores of landowners remain tangled in lawsuits. The government has already taken their land and built the border fence. But it has not resolved claims for its value.
Happy now ?
HERE
This whole rant is about things that took place under Obama.
The whole idea was to illustrate how this started in 2006 under Bush and the R's then. Did you read the link ? The study was 12/17.
Now it's Trump's turn, needs more land in the end, will take more time than 2 terms even if he gets another and all...with questionable results.
A just-published study conducted by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune analyzed over 400 condemnations undertaken as a result of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized the construction of a much smaller barrier than Trump's proposed wall. Here is their summary of their findings:
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