Showing posts with label imminent domain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imminent domain. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

'They demolished my house for this?' Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled

...Though Trump and the former Republican Wisconsin governor Scott Walker declared with the 2017 Foxconn announcement that they had revived a critical upper midwest swing state's manufacturing sector, the project is now viewed as a loss for Republicans. Meanwhile, there's a growing sense that Mount Pleasant residents' lives were upended for what was little more than elaborate political theater designed to score a phony public relations win for Trump and Walker...

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Hundreds of Texas landowners get notice of Trump administration's land grab - Daily Kos

90-year-old Texan Elvira Canales said that while no one from the federal government has told her a proposed border wall could go through her land, she's nonetheless prepared to fight to defend what is hers. "I won't sell it," she said, "or I won't give it permission because it's my property for generations and generations." Hundreds of others, however, could be bracing for a bitter fight...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1843610

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Trump's budget shows he is getting ready to fight Americans for their land on the border (Business Insider)

Maria Flores and her siblings have owned a 16-acre property along a bend in the Rio Grande River for so long none of them can remember when their family acquired it. On January 12, her daughter, Yvette Salinas, received a legal notice from the Department of Homeland Security with a 21-page "Declaration of Taking," offering Flores $2,900 for 1.2 acres of her property along the river. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-budget-border-wall-land-acquisition-eminent-domain-2017-3







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