Federal government moves to seize part of Salineño wildlife preserve for border wall
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The federal government filed a land condemnation lawsuit Tuesday against part of a wildlife preserve in Salineño owned by the Valley Land Fund.
The U.S. Attorney s Office for the Southern District of Texas filed the lawsuit after the Valley Land Fund backed out of a deal to sell the property.
After taking the property, the federal government plans to build a wall through the area. The public purpose for which said property is taken is to construct, install, operate, and maintain roads, fencing, vehicle barriers, security lighting, cameras, sensors, and related structures designed to help secure the United States/Mexico border within the State of Texas, according to the lawsuit.
Editorial: Biden must get creative to stop Trump s border wall
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Authorities pass a border wall construction site, in Mission, Texas, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden will face immediate pressure to fulfill his pledge to stop border wall construction. But he will confront a series of tough choices left behind by President Donald Trump, who s ramped up construction in his final weeks. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Eric Gay, STF / Associated Press
A map misleads. A map of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, for example, suggests a clearly delineated demarcation. Residents on both sides of that line know that’s not exactly accurate. They live and work in proximity to a U.S.-Mexico border that more closely resembles an impressionist water-color painting, with the hues of culture, history, economics and family of each nation bleeding across the imperfect confines of a cartographer’s rendering.
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