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Seth Meyers on Another Crazy News Day: Stormy Daniels Sues, Gary Cohn Quits, Trump Talks North Korea

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wrenchwench3/08/2018 12:43:50 pm PST

re: #531 stpaulbear

I’m sure that Mexican officials gave that meeting all of the gravitas to which it was entitled. I bet people showed up for that meeting just to see how stupid it would be.

Some New Mexicans are so mixed up, they’re putting a fence around the wall. And it’s a Libertarian at that!

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Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn told The Associated Press that if his office can’t reach an agreement over an easement with the federal government, he will install a fence to block access to the property.

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Dunn’s staff determined that one parcel between the Santa Teresa port of entry and El Paso, Texas, had been initially conveyed to what was then the territory of New Mexico under the 1898 Ferguson Act. New Mexico officials contend the parcel was never part of the buffer zone that was established by a 1907 presidential proclamation to ensure federal authorities could patrol along the southern border.

Dunn said a survey by the Bureau of Land Management and other records show the state owns the entire parcel and that the federal government never received permission from the state to build the border barrier that has existed there for years, or to use the roads in the area.

There also are questions about whether a right of way is needed for another area where the federal government has installed lights and is maintaining a road along the border.

Easement and rights of way fees would cost roughly $30,000 for the parcels in question, according to preliminary estimates by the State Land Office.

“This trespass issue is not a new issue,” Dunn said. “There’s been quite a bit of federal encroachment.”