Federal Government Starts To Return RGV Properties Seized For Border Wall
The federal government is starting to give property back to some landowners in the Rio Grande Valley whose land was seized to construct a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
These are pieces of property that run along the Rio Grande, and had been seized by the Department of Homeland Security during the second Bush or Trump administrations.
Under President Biden, however, Homeland Security is reviewing those seizures, and returning any parcels that the department doesn’t need.
“For some [landowners], this has been a saga that’s gone on for, you know, more than 10 years,” freelance reporter Dave Hendricks said. “There are cases pending that started in 2008 that revved up during the end of the Bush administration, went nowhere during Obama, came back during Trump and then stopped again under Biden.”
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