The issue of the Texas land owners resisting a wall on their border property is probably not the last barrier to building a wall that will come out. But to be sure, land owners do not like to part with even a small portion of their privately owned property.
Eminent domain is a legal government taking of a land owner's property. So here's a path around that: build the wall in the Rio Grande River. Yes, right in the water.
Offshore petroleum platforms survive in the Gulf of Mexico, so it shouldn't be too hard to sink pylons in a river bed and attach metal slats to them to form a long lasting physical barrier.
The adjacent land owners own the land underlying the river up to the Mexican border, which should be down the middle. But federal and state laws prevent the use by the landowner of the land under the water. So exercising eminent domain for the land under water shouldn't be that difficult.
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1:28 PM 2/19/2019
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