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Trump's border wall hinges on 20 lawyers devoted to eminent domain takings in Texas
Lazy takers like cfm, ila, stretch and irish demand that we be taxed to support the theft of our neighbors while they sit on their fat lazy asses doing nothing.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/polit...in-texans-wary
"You're taking land that in some cases belonged to people for generations. In Texas, private property rights is a very, very important concept," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat.
The president is asking Congress for $4.1 billion through next year to begin construction of a wall, a barrier projected to cost as much as $25 billion, plus annual repairs.
Tucked in the budget blueprint rolled out Thursday is a proposal to hire 20 attorneys to pursue federal efforts to obtain the land and holdings necessary to secure the Southwest border.
Conservatives embrace tighter border security but typically cast a wary eye at government land grabs. Foes of Trump's plan for a wall hope that forges a potent, if unusual, coalition between people who fret about landowners' rights and others focused on protecting immigrants.
"For a lot of people along the border, this isn't their first rodeo when it comes to the federal government trying to seize their land to build a wall," said Tom Jawetz, vice president of immigration at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank. He recalled fights after a 2006 law that authorized roughly 700 miles of fencing now in place. "There's a lot of land and there are a lot of different land owners."
Jawetz called the sums Trump has proposed so far for the wall "a drop in the bucket" but still sizeable.
"He's definitely throwing several billion dollars at something that is going to be unneeded, unwanted and ineffective," he said.
On Jan. 25, Trump issued an executive order requiring the "immediate" construction of a physical wall, and he vowed "100 percent repayment" from Mexico. He floated the possibility of slapping a 20 percent tariff on imports from Mexico. But U.S. consumers and businesses would pay that, and the White House quickly dropped the idea.
For now, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney conceded, funding would not come from Mexico at all.
"It gets us a start on the program, and you'll see some of the wall being built this year," he said of the initial budget request. "As to the source of funds, that's up to the president and the Treasury and the State Department."
Cuellar, who met with Mexico's new ambassador to the United States on Thursday, reiterated that "Mexico is not going to pay for this wall. ... We all want to secure the border, but there are smarter, better ways of securing the border. It's a 14th century solution to a 20th century problem."
As for the new legal team needed to condemn land for the project, Cuellar said such cases will clog courts that are already overloaded. He predicted resistance in Congress.
"We're going to have some strategic fencing. ... It's not going to be what President Trump has envisioned," he said.
Democrats have cast the Trump budget as a cruel plan to shift funding from programs such as Meals on Wheels — which delivers food to needy seniors — to pay for the wall and a defense build-up.
"Although I believe it is important to protect our nation and our military's strength, it is not the job of the working class to carry such a heavy financial burden by paying for the physical construction of a border wall," said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Dallas Democrat.
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Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the homeborn among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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tldr: Trump's going to give a bunch of our money to some lawyers, build some bullshit little chain link fence while cfm and company sit on their fat lazy asses.
I can't see how they are going to be able to complete the legal battles within before we get rid of Trump.
Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the homeborn among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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it's got to be done..did you hear about that rape in Rockville,Md. ( another sanctuary city).
Rockville is Montgomery county - a very rich and very liberal place.
But I digress....ICE had the guy who already had a record, and released him to a sponser, and the 18 yearoldguy was put into
a freshman class with 14 year olds,and he dragged a girl into the bathroom and viciously raped her.
The problem is presidents ( and Congress) like Obama who did all this catch and release.
The other problem is deportations like the guy who murdered KAte Steinle as she walked on a San Franciso pier with her father was already deported.
Congress enacts unworkable legislation, or POTUS dodges it, and we let these monsters run loose.
There needs to be a wall to protect us from our own damn politicians
Mjölner
I was wrong.Originally Posted by anatta
Fucking ignorant trump ass fucker.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
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speaking from experience emminent domain can be the best thing that happens in your life
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Rune must be firing up the joints for breakfast.
cancel2 2022 (03-22-2017)
Mjölner
I was wrong.
Fucking ignorant trump ass fucker.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
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what were you wrong about brother rune?
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