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(470 posts)My other half lives in Brownsville. It is one of the poorest counties in America and heavily Hispanic and Democrat.
Here's the deal with this...
This has been happening for over a decade down there. Luckily, despite my other half's family owning a farm she isn't impacted by this however many area. People's property has literally been cut off and some are actually on the other side of the fence, in no mans land.
It impacts people of all political ideology and honestly, it's very sad to see this happen as there are many families involved.
The golf course in the video, River Bend has massive financial trouble. It's also pretty much a done deal that the course will cease to exist at this point and those plans that were shows drawn up? That was done so a few years back. Here's a great article from 2008 on it all
It just breaks my heart to see this happen down there. People down there have been through so much with poverty...