How does the government use eminent domain to seize land from Texans?
“How does the government use eminent domain to seize land from Texans?” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
The government has the power to seize land from citizens to build things like schools, roads and border walls although it is required to fairly compensate them. That power is more limited at the local and state level, where officials have enacted policies to protect landowners. Meanwhile, the federal government could feasibly take private land and begin building on it the same day — and pay the property owner later.
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This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2018/12/26/texas-eminent-domain-border-wall/.
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