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Trump May Be Gone, But the Fight Against His Border Wall Goes On
"The number of migrant children in Border Patrol custody is down significantly.
"Pentagon to cancel Trump border wall projects using military funds""
Residents in Los Ebanos, Texas, on the Rio Grande thought Joe Biden’s victory would end their fears of losing their property for a wall. It hasn’t worked out that way.
Los Ebanos, Texas, is best known for its ferry, called El Chalán, which transports across the Rio Grande River people between the United States and Mexico. Christopher Lee for The New York Times
By Edgar Sandoval
Published Sept. 11, 2021Updated Oct. 5, 2021
LOS EBANOS, Texas — The men showed up unannounced, but it didn’t take long for Aleida Flores Garcia to figure out why they were measuring portions of her backyard. “We are here to mark where a border wall would go,” they told her last summer as they surveyed the ranch her family has owned for five generations.
Ms. Garcia, the last surviving member of her family, had successfully fended off the federal government more than a decade ago, when a different president, George W. Bush, was intent on building a barrier that would cut across a large swath of her land. Now she stood guard as the men took notes and marked the path of an eventual barrier, tears streaming down her face, worried she wouldn’t be so lucky again.
This time, she feared, the border wall really was coming to Los Ebanos .. https://www.krgv.com/videos/los-ebanos-woman-resists-border-wall-to-preserve-heritage/ .
[...]
Many Texans thought the issue would subside once President Biden took office. But in a move that critics said appeared designed to attract support from conservative voters ahead of his re-election campaign, Gov. Greg Abbott announced an ambitious proposal to pick up where Mr. Trump had left off.
He said he had set aside $250 million from the state’s general revenue to continue building a wall, and also asked people to donate online.
For the most part, the additional fencing would be erected on vacant ranch properties or land owned by the state or federal government. But residents fear that many areas under consideration include populated communities like Los Ebanos, those right on the border and frequent crossing spots for migrants.
The small town is a frequent border crossing for migrants. Christopher Lee for The New York Times
Ms. Garcia, whose sprawling 30-acre ranch is called La Paloma, has grown accustomed to the sight of desperate and thirsty migrants — many of them fleeing violence and poverty in Central America — wandering in her backyard. “They are human beings,” she said. “A wall is not going to deter anyone.”
When the men in construction hats and measuring tape arrived at her home last summer, while Mr. Trump was still president, she balked — but also worried. The federal government was intent on building on her property, she said, and it initiated an eminent domain case to take the property if she would not willingly give it up.
But then Mr. Trump lost the 2020 election and Ms. Garcia felt relief, as President Biden had vowed to pause construction of a wall. “We thought Biden was going to give us our land back,” she said.
But eight months after Mr. Biden took office, 100 lawsuits remain open against Texans who own land along the border, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project, a civil rights group.
Pam Rivas, who owns property in Los Ebanos but lives several miles away in the more populated city of Edinburg, said she had little hope that her land would be returned until the government abruptly began steps to do just that last week to owners like her. Her case is ongoing and was scheduled to go to court this month. At issue was not whether the government has the authority to build a wall along seven acres of her property, but how much she would be compensated for it, said her lawyer, Ricky Garza.
“This has been a long fight,” said Ms. Rivas, 60.
Ms. Garcia, for her part, has stopped tending to her property. New fencing, as planned, would cut her off from 90 percent of her backyard. “The wall is coming,” she said. “What’s the point?”
While Mr. Biden halted construction on the border wall on his first day in office, lawyers with the Texas Civil Rights Project said that in recent months there had been little movement by the Department of Justice to dismiss the pending litigation and lawsuits over property, until this month, when legal filings began to show movement that they are willing to return the land to a handful of owners. They also said that some construction for border barriers has resumed in parts of the Rio Grande Valley .. https://myrgv.com/local-news/2021/08/22/legal-limbo-as-border-wall-lawsuits-remain-in-limbo-construction-resumes/ .
A Customs and Border Protection official said the work was levy repairs to mitigate flooding.
Department of Justice officials said a few dozen cases were pending, but added that the department was also evaluating whether any landowners qualified to get their property back and was inquiring if other owners were even interested in getting it back. Some officials pointed to a case where the federal government reversed course and planned to return the land to its owner in nearby Starr County.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/us/texas-border-mexico.html
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Ah, the Blackwater guy just has gotta milk every misery for all the money he can. Erik Prince, one of the honcho contractors who likely defrauded Americans in his taking so much of the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
P - The same guy who worked with the Trump team in their efforts to secure secret communication channels with Russia toward the 2020 election
[...]
Meanwhile, we know for a fact -- again, literally -- that Paul Manafort and Rex Tillerson have extensive financial ties to Russian oligarchs and Putin himself. We know that Betsy DeVos is the sister of Blackwater chief Erik Prince, who tried to set up a backchannel on Syria with the Russians on behalf of the Trump team. We absolutely know that Mike Flynn has extensive links to Putin and Putin's puppet in Turkey, President Erdogan. We know that Trump's Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, was formerly the vice chairman of, and a major shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus, a reputed money-laundering front for vast amounts of Russian cash, including money that hopped from the Russian "Fertilizer King" to the Bank of Cyprus and then to Donald Trump's bank account in exchange for an overpriced, nouveau-riche property in Palm Beach [ http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article135187364.html ]
that was never lived-in and has since been demolished -- before winning Trump a colossal $60 million profit in the biggest single home real estate deal in American history.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165626099
"The number of migrant children in Border Patrol custody is down significantly.
"Pentagon to cancel Trump border wall projects using military funds""
Residents in Los Ebanos, Texas, on the Rio Grande thought Joe Biden’s victory would end their fears of losing their property for a wall. It hasn’t worked out that way.
Los Ebanos, Texas, is best known for its ferry, called El Chalán, which transports across the Rio Grande River people between the United States and Mexico. Christopher Lee for The New York Times
By Edgar Sandoval
Published Sept. 11, 2021Updated Oct. 5, 2021
LOS EBANOS, Texas — The men showed up unannounced, but it didn’t take long for Aleida Flores Garcia to figure out why they were measuring portions of her backyard. “We are here to mark where a border wall would go,” they told her last summer as they surveyed the ranch her family has owned for five generations.
Ms. Garcia, the last surviving member of her family, had successfully fended off the federal government more than a decade ago, when a different president, George W. Bush, was intent on building a barrier that would cut across a large swath of her land. Now she stood guard as the men took notes and marked the path of an eventual barrier, tears streaming down her face, worried she wouldn’t be so lucky again.
This time, she feared, the border wall really was coming to Los Ebanos .. https://www.krgv.com/videos/los-ebanos-woman-resists-border-wall-to-preserve-heritage/ .
[...]
Many Texans thought the issue would subside once President Biden took office. But in a move that critics said appeared designed to attract support from conservative voters ahead of his re-election campaign, Gov. Greg Abbott announced an ambitious proposal to pick up where Mr. Trump had left off.
He said he had set aside $250 million from the state’s general revenue to continue building a wall, and also asked people to donate online.
For the most part, the additional fencing would be erected on vacant ranch properties or land owned by the state or federal government. But residents fear that many areas under consideration include populated communities like Los Ebanos, those right on the border and frequent crossing spots for migrants.
The small town is a frequent border crossing for migrants. Christopher Lee for The New York Times
Ms. Garcia, whose sprawling 30-acre ranch is called La Paloma, has grown accustomed to the sight of desperate and thirsty migrants — many of them fleeing violence and poverty in Central America — wandering in her backyard. “They are human beings,” she said. “A wall is not going to deter anyone.”
When the men in construction hats and measuring tape arrived at her home last summer, while Mr. Trump was still president, she balked — but also worried. The federal government was intent on building on her property, she said, and it initiated an eminent domain case to take the property if she would not willingly give it up.
But then Mr. Trump lost the 2020 election and Ms. Garcia felt relief, as President Biden had vowed to pause construction of a wall. “We thought Biden was going to give us our land back,” she said.
But eight months after Mr. Biden took office, 100 lawsuits remain open against Texans who own land along the border, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project, a civil rights group.
Pam Rivas, who owns property in Los Ebanos but lives several miles away in the more populated city of Edinburg, said she had little hope that her land would be returned until the government abruptly began steps to do just that last week to owners like her. Her case is ongoing and was scheduled to go to court this month. At issue was not whether the government has the authority to build a wall along seven acres of her property, but how much she would be compensated for it, said her lawyer, Ricky Garza.
“This has been a long fight,” said Ms. Rivas, 60.
Ms. Garcia, for her part, has stopped tending to her property. New fencing, as planned, would cut her off from 90 percent of her backyard. “The wall is coming,” she said. “What’s the point?”
While Mr. Biden halted construction on the border wall on his first day in office, lawyers with the Texas Civil Rights Project said that in recent months there had been little movement by the Department of Justice to dismiss the pending litigation and lawsuits over property, until this month, when legal filings began to show movement that they are willing to return the land to a handful of owners. They also said that some construction for border barriers has resumed in parts of the Rio Grande Valley .. https://myrgv.com/local-news/2021/08/22/legal-limbo-as-border-wall-lawsuits-remain-in-limbo-construction-resumes/ .
A Customs and Border Protection official said the work was levy repairs to mitigate flooding.
Department of Justice officials said a few dozen cases were pending, but added that the department was also evaluating whether any landowners qualified to get their property back and was inquiring if other owners were even interested in getting it back. Some officials pointed to a case where the federal government reversed course and planned to return the land to its owner in nearby Starr County.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/us/texas-border-mexico.html
See also:
Trump Continues To Kill Republicans With False Claim That 3rd Booster Shot Is A Cash Grab
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165515585
Ah, the Blackwater guy just has gotta milk every misery for all the money he can. Erik Prince, one of the honcho contractors who likely defrauded Americans in his taking so much of the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
P - The same guy who worked with the Trump team in their efforts to secure secret communication channels with Russia toward the 2020 election
[...]
Meanwhile, we know for a fact -- again, literally -- that Paul Manafort and Rex Tillerson have extensive financial ties to Russian oligarchs and Putin himself. We know that Betsy DeVos is the sister of Blackwater chief Erik Prince, who tried to set up a backchannel on Syria with the Russians on behalf of the Trump team. We absolutely know that Mike Flynn has extensive links to Putin and Putin's puppet in Turkey, President Erdogan. We know that Trump's Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, was formerly the vice chairman of, and a major shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus, a reputed money-laundering front for vast amounts of Russian cash, including money that hopped from the Russian "Fertilizer King" to the Bank of Cyprus and then to Donald Trump's bank account in exchange for an overpriced, nouveau-riche property in Palm Beach [ http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article135187364.html ]
that was never lived-in and has since been demolished -- before winning Trump a colossal $60 million profit in the biggest single home real estate deal in American history.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165626099
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