Border Wall Research Paper

Blog Post #5: United States Border Wall If you have watched the news at all during the course of the last year, you will be certain to have heard about President Donald Trump’s Wall! During President Trump’s first campaign rally he yelled, “WE ARE GOING TO BUILD A BIG, GREAT BORDER WALL!” A large border wall stretching nearly, two thousand miles across four states, is Donald Trump’s solution for United States Border Security. Time and time again have we heard about the “great big border wall” but have you ever wondered the actual logistics behind this grand scheme? The answer: hundred upon thousands of Eminent Domain cases. The Government Accountability Office reports that “federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles, or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 total border miles. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas” (Meyer 2016). Like we have previously discussed this privately-owned land will have to be negotiated with landowners using Eminent Domain. In 2013, the federal government succeeded in using eminent domain to acquire the land rights to build a border fence across Dr. Eloisa G. Tamez’s ancestral home in 2013 (Meyer 2016). Dr. Tamez’s land has been in her family since the King of …show more content…
In 2007, when Border Wall construction began, thousands of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona farmers and ranchers simply had to hand their land over to the federal government (Miller 2017). It was either settle for the loss and take the compensation, or spends thousands on a lawsuit that they were going to lose. Many farmers and ranchers lost precious land that boosted their operations. At the end of the day the real question many agriculturists will face is: Is the loss of land to my farm or ranch worth the security in the