BLM Land Grab: Texas In Next! Texas Tells Feds They’re Ready To Fight

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On the heels of the armed standoff in Nevada, the BLM is at it again; but this time, the State of Texas has its citizen’s backs.

Last week we covered the story of some ranchers in Texas who were in danger of losing their land after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) yet again tried to claim private land for the federal government. But this time the feds may have bit off more than they can chew, because the 90,000 acres they tried to steal are not going to be so easy to take.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says Texas is not going to roll over, and intends to support the ranchers within their borders. Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst said that the feds plan to steal Texas land was “outrageous” and “made [his] blood boil.”

“The federal government’s history of arrogant overreach is approaching a new low with word the Bureau of Land Management is threatening to confiscate up to 90,000 acres of Texas land without compensation,” Dewhurst said. “This is a federal land-grab, pure and simple and the BLM has done it before.”

The Texas Attorney General’s Office sent a letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze on April 22 demanding answers to why the federal government was attempting to steal the 90,000 acres of Texas land, and in the process redraw the state’s borders.

In part of the letter Abbott writes:

“I am deeply troubled by reports from BLM field hearings that the federal government may claim – for the first time – that 90,000 acres of territory along the Red River now belong to the federal government.”…“Private land owners in Texas have owned, maintained, and cultivated this land for generation.”

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