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Feuds along the border flare up as wall construction ramps up

Stevicus

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Feuds flare along Trump’s border wall as construction ramps up during his final days in office (msn.com)

President Trump’s quest to build as much of his border wall as possible before leaving office is newly angering landowners and authorities in the American southwest.

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© Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images A plaque commemorating President Trump hangs on the United States-Mexico border wall on Dec. 1 in Calexico, Calif.

An Arizona rancher said construction crews recently detonated explosives that sent “car-sized boulders” tumbling onto his property. Municipal water officials in El Paso said they deployed dump trucks last week to block wall-builders from cutting off their only road to a vital canal along the Rio Grande. And landowners in Laredo, Tex., are urging elected officials to pressure the incoming Biden administration to make clear that their private property will be safe from construction crews eager to finish the job.
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The feuds demonstrate the impact that Trump’s final push to expand his $15 billion border wall is having on a region that has been the focal point of his four-year term, even though President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to stop construction immediately upon taking office. Federal officials say Trump has built 415 miles of new barriers — and that they expect to reach 450 miles by the end of the year while working at breakneck pace — to deter drug traffickers, human smugglers and criminal organizations from attempting to enter the United States. But critics say the wall is a political boondoggle and that the administration is trampling landowners’ rights in the process of building it.
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They're working at breakneck pace to get the wall finished before Trump has to leave office.

But there are still all kinds of legal tangles with property owners and local governments. The manager of the El Paso County Water Improvement District deployed two dump trucks to block the road to prevent construction of the wall, which would have blocked access to one of the canals they use to utilize water from the Rio Grande River.

The most recent flare-up last week in El Paso pit the county’s water district against the federal government and a construction crew from Oklahoma.

Jesus “Chuy” Reyes, general manager of the El Paso County Water Improvement District, an elected board that owns and operates hundreds of miles of canals and drains, said he learned on Nov. 10 that a construction crew was planning to build a three-mile stretch of wall in the Texas border community. The wall would be parallel to an existing wall that the Trump administration rebuilt two years ago and topped with razor wire. The older fence had cut off the south access road to the American Canal Extension, a public works project that allows Mexico and the United States to share the waters of the Rio Grande.

Reyes said he did not know where the second wall would go, but last week he spotted it: Heavy machinery was being used to dig a trench in the middle of the only other access road to the canal, on the north side. It was about 70 feet away from the old wall.

Furious, he deployed a pair of dump trucks to block the road. Then, he wrote to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the private companies building the barrier.
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He said he spoke to an official from the Army Corps of Engineers who indicated that they're under orders from Washington to get the wall built as soon as possible.

He said he pressed an Army Corps official for answers in a meeting last week, and he was left with the impression that the push to build was “most definitely part of the Trump administration’s effort to build as many miles as they can.”

“She said, ‘We only have a certain amount of time to build this,’ ” he recalled. “We plainly asked her, ‘Is this part of the Trump fence you need to finish by January 20th?’ She said, ‘The only thing I can tell you is the orders are coming from Washington.”
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Twilight Hue

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Revoltingest said:
That would hurt Canuckistanians.
But we'd never even notice it.
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Its not like the good ole' days* where both Americans and Canadians could liberally cross the border at whim by just showing their regular driver licenses with the occasional screening once in awhile.

*Now called once upon a time.
 
Revoltingest

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Twilight Hue said:
Its not like the good ole' days* where both Americans and Canadians could liberally cross the border at whim by just showing their regular driver licenses with the occasional screening once in awhile.

*Now called once upon a time.
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In my half century of crossing, it was seldom that easy.
I hate government.
 
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