@Fluttershy Studios
If the state can use your property without your consent, you do not own anything. It’s not the right of the state to decide what they do with your property, because they are not the owners of that property, it’s as simple as that. Any law or action that violates this principle is an abomination and it’s a promise for the possibility of further, more egregious violations. If they would have asked beforehand and then negotiated compensation, there wouldn’t be any problem.
Imperfect, but better than the arbitrary whims of a totalitarian mindset operating on feelings.
@Dr. Eggman
Generous compensation, double, triple the value of the property; I can’t imagine a case where the state didn’t have the budget for such things. Doesn’t save the sentimental value attached to the houses and it has the problem of entangled legalese, admittedly.
Would need more circumstantial information surrounding the construction plan to see what the situation is. Can’t initially see why the wall couldn’t be built circling away from the houses instead. I can’t necessarily blame Trump without knowing whose executive decision it was to contruct the wall through those properties. It sounds too simple to blame it on only a single politician.