DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Government lawyers are working with texas landowners to settle cases over land that was seized to build a fence along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Associated Press reports that a 16 page legal notice appeared last week in the Brownsville Herald, reporting that hundreds of landowners had several weeks left to contest how much the government should pay for their land.
One lawyer for landowners believes the legal notice is a lead-up to a fight over a border wall proposed by President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Justice Department denies any connection between the legal notice and the possibility of a future border wall.
So far, Congress has refused to fund new construction of the kind of wall President Trump has promised to build.
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