Bloggers Jude Lieber and Marianna Wright with the National Butterfly Center have first person accounts of property rights violations by contractors working for CBP. This is being done quietly, so sharing it widely may help (I would share Lieber’s blog directly rather than this diary). I came across it in a ‘moderates’ group I’m a member of, in which a conservative member expressed disgust at the methods used. So this may be useful to share, and also we need to stop it now if possible. Maybe readers in Texas can help.
Marianna’s comment on Jude’s blog post, with additional first hand information:
A Department of Homeland Security contractor, Tikigaq Construction, was starting to clear a 1.2 mile stretch of road from the levee to the Rio Grande River, when I stopeed them. They were also widening the road. To this day, neither Tikigaq, Customs and Border Protection or DHS has provided us with proof of permission of right of way to do this work, much less a copy of the work plan, scope or schedule. Instead, I received a visit from the chief of the Rio Grande Valley sector of CBP explaining they would be back with “green uniform presence”. i.e. armed federal agents, to continue their work ahead of the border wall.