Property Rights on The Rocks in Texas

Eloisa Tamez and fence on neighboring property.
  
(Photography by Jeff Wilson)

Because the state just enjoys dividing people...a tragic story from Texas:

Following two years of courtroom battles with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency got the go-ahead in 2009 to extend its controversial border fence across her land.  Since then, roughly 75 percent of her formerly three-acre lot has been behind a steel barrier, land that's now the property of the federal government.* 

This is an example proving that property rights are not enforced in Texas.

You may think you own land but how is that possible if someone else can come along and take it from you in exchange for payment they deem appropriate?


*From The Texas Tribune