Connecting the dots, HotAir explains that to build a border wall, requires that land be acquired. Acquiring land by a governmental entity, lends itself to eminent domain when landowners aren’t willing to give up their land.
Eminent Domain for a border wall is being called:
- more symbolic than substantive
- serious limits on what a fence can do
- sharply declining returns on those fencing investments
- costly
- inefective