Real Estate & Property Law

Quiet Border Passing Needs to be Expanded

By Alan Ackerman

msnbc.com

"Our airports, seaports, and land ports of entry are all part of an interconnected security network to facilitate entry and exit to and from our country," the agency said in a statement Tuesday. "When we fail to fortify one, we weaken the entire system, putting our national security at risk."

If the Morses Line Port of Entry can't be expanded, it may have to close, the CBP statement said.

The Brattleboro Reformer mantra describes what it views as an unnecessary taking of land in a minimally used border crossing between the United States and Canada.  

The federal government urges the need premised upon national security at all border crossings.

It is amazing that there is going to be a huge expenditure of $15,000,000 for the expansion here, while the heavily utilized interim and unbelievably important commercial crossing  in Detroit faces problems expanding.  If one reads this article in the Vermont paper, one would have to wonder why the Detroit River International Crossing is not proceeding. 

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).