Trump Administration is in the process of instituting dozens of eminent-domain lawsuits to seize property it needs to build the wall. Horrified homeowners on the southern border, most of whom, ironically, supported Donald Trump, have learned what Trump’s immigration policy will actually mean for their property and their lives. Many, as the land is often arbitrarily hacked in two, find themselves living on the Mexican side of the border. The lawsuits this action will generate will drag on for years. At a ruinous cost to the taxpayers.
The border wall will be ecologically and economically ruinous to the border community. One woman, already a victim of a 2006 eminent-domain seizure and relegated to the Mexican side of the wall, told a horrifying tale of trying to fight a fire on her property because firefighters found access to the property difficult and prolonged, thanks to the wall, and she had the heartbreaking experience of having to watch her beloved dog burn alive.
The gory details of the Trump policy are here.