FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUING TEXAS ORPHANAGE TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO LAND FOR BORDER PROJECTS

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek


BY ASHER STOCKLER ON 5/6/20 AT 5:55 PM EDT

The Trump administration is suing an orphanage in South Texas in order to exercise its eminent domain powers and obtain temporary access to the property to plan for construction along the border with Mexico.

In return for a year-long grant of access to the land, known as an easement, the federal government says it will pay the Sacred Heart Children's Home of Laredo, Texas, $100 as "just compensation."

The orphanage is situated on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The easement provides the government and its employees the right to enter and move across the 68-acre property in order to conduct surveying for the proposed construction of roads, fencing and related structures "designed to help secure the United States/Mexico border within the State of Texas."

The eminent domain action was commenced on behalf of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, specifically its Wall Program Management Office, a component which is "responsible for border barrier projects," an official explained.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-border-wall-texas-orphanage-1502435?piano_t=1

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[Lonestarblue]

2. Trump is bringing hundreds of construction workers to these communities.

The work on the wall has been accelerated while the nation’s attention is on fighting a global pandemic. Meanwhile border communities, many of them poor and without adequate medical facilities, are having the virus brought to them by construction workers from all over the country. All Trump and his Nazi acolyte, Miller, care about is hurting people on the border. I really hope that a President Biden orders these walls destroyed and the land taken without due process restored to families that have lived on it for decades and generations. Trump has said just to move forward and he will pardon anyone who gets in trouble.

[elleng]

3. He gets 'points' for immigrant bashing,

so will continue using the Wall crap, hoping the base forgets about virus.

[Canoe52]

4. You just can't make this shit up...suing an orphanage, who would've thought!