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Reason
Jeremiah Alondra

Texas Landowners Face a Difficult Decision: Allow Border Wall or Lose Right to Property

Landowners along the southern border are feeling the consequences of a Donald Trump campaign promise more than a decade in the making: the creation of a border wall.

Equipped with billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun surveying remote West Texas land for wall construction. For some in Texas' Big Bend region, these surveys may mean forfeiting their property rights, some for land their families have held for generations.

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