The White House still hasn't addressed the biggest logistical challenge with Trump's border wall

U.S. Mexico border wall.
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President Trump's promised border wall — the $18 billion one with the "big beautiful door" and the holes in it so Americans aren't crushed by large bales of drugs tossed over the top — would be built on a lot of privately owned land should it ever, in fact, be built. About 1,400 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border remain without a continuous barrier, and much of this land would have to be confiscated via eminent domain for construction to proceed.

Trump himself is a known eminent domain enthusiast, which makes all the more noteworthy the report from Tommy Fisher, owner of one of four contracting companies selected to construct a wall prototype, that the White House has yet to address how eminent domain issues would be handled on this project.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.