Feds To Seize Land From Uncooperative Border Land Owners
Normally I would have a problem with this but non-compliance exacerbates the Illegal Alien problem…
(LA Times) - WASHINGTON — The Bush administration warned landowners along the southern border Friday that it would seize their property if they refused to cooperate with federal efforts to build a fence meant to slow illegal immigration.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he would give landowners 30 days to indicate whether they would allow federal officials on their land to survey its suitability for fencing. If they decline, he said, he would turn to the courts to gain temporary access.
Chertoff said that access to 225 miles of noncontiguous land, most of it in Texas and Arizona, was essential to meeting the administration’s goal of building 370 miles of border fencing by the end of 2008.
They better get moving so some of it actually gets built before a potential DemoRat Prez. does something to kill it.
