Mark, the interstate highway system costs about a million dollars per mile to build. It might be more. How many miles of interstate does the US have? How do you think that the US federal government takes possession of land for interstate highways? It wouldn’t be through the process of eminent domain would it? I know that it is a tragedy for everyone whose property is taken. And I’m sorry about it. But it improves the value of all the other land that is served by the shared resource.
Assuming that you’re telling the truth about owning border property, if you want to allow free passage through your land then find some way to have a border gate on your property and a road through it and then maybe you can build a gas station and a restaurant and rake the money in, so long as you allow the customs and border control agents at the gate to protect the rest of the US behind your property. That way you can have easy access to the Rio Grande side of your fence. How about it?
