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Originally Posted by Robbie
I wonder how much land they would need to put up a border wall. I'm assuming there is already some kind of dirt roads right on the border already for the border patrol to use?
So if they needed to use some land...how much would they need? A hundred feet back from the border? Not much more than they would use for a road.
They don't need to "take" ALL the land from people. Just enough for the size of an average back yard to put up a wall.
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I wonder how much land they would need too.
I don't think it will be a few hundred feet. If they are going to take land, they are aren't going to take just a few hundred feet wide.
My mother used to work for a company that built power plants, and they had to put in power lines. They took more than a few hundred feet wide. They also had to build access roads.
Frankly.... If the government decides to build walls or even fencing, they government had the right to take the land. They say "national security" and they do it and while they might slug it out in court for a few years, I think the government would win.
I am actually all for securing our borders. Take politics out of it, take my obvious hatred for Trump out of it, and take Mexico out of it... We have a huge long border with Canada and while I like every Canadian I've ever met it's stunning that we don't have some kind of a fence or something. We've all see the news reports where in some towns you just drive over the border and are supposed to "call customs" to report it. LOL.
We need walls in high traffic areas - such as San Diego and near other ports of entry -but otherwise we need fences.