End Chinese Ownership of U.S. Farmland - Especially Around Military Bases

[donttreadonme (Steve)]

End Chinese Ownership of U.S. Farmland - Especially Around Military Bases

I propose that the following 2 policy proposals, about ending foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, get merged:

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Written by @CHarris

43.3 million acres 54,300 residential properties owned by foreign entities it's time to end foreign ownership of U.S. real estate

Proposal to End Foreign Ownership of Real Estate in the United States Objective: To safeguard national security, economic stability, and the interests of American citizens by prohibiting foreign entities from owning real estate in the United States. Background: Foreign ownership of U.S. real estate has been a growing concern, with foreign entities currently owning approximately 43.4 million acres of agricultural land and 54,300 residential properties. This ownership can pose risks to national …

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Written by @LJM68

Chinese ownership of US farmland

The Trump team should develop a strategy (and provide assistance to states to implement the strategy) to use local eminent domain laws to retrieve farmland purchased by Chinese non-citizens within the past 5 years. The entity that purchased the land will be offered the same amount they paid for the land (or current market value, whichever is less), and if the offer is refused then the case gets prosecuted. The states need to be coordinated under Trump to minimize the risk of conflicting strategi…

Explanation & Justification

These two policy proposals are proposing almost identical policies of forbidding foreign ownership of U.S. farmland (namely by the Chinese).

[CHarris]

Sounds good to me

[lindabarse01 (Linda Barse)]

Personally don’t believe other Countries should own land in the United States. They only want farm land or land with minerals. That land should only be for American’s. So any land that is owned by another Country should be seized and given back to the farmers or sold to Americans.

[Toula_F]

This is so important! I hope it gains more traction. China and Bill Gates own way too much of our farmland! My husband wanted to start a Gofundme for the people by the people to chip in and buy as much of our land as possible and to sell it only to US citizens. Not China. Not billionaire corporations. How amazing would that be?!

[P_Cole (Patrick Cole)]

Definitely a must.

[Jeanadc (Jeana Collier)]

We HAVE to stop foreigners from purchasing large amounts of land. PERIOD. I am appalled that it is even possible in America for someone from ANY country to be able to bribe locals into price gouged amounts so that they sell their land for millions of dollars. I attended a community meeting last week in Pittsylvania county, Virginia (town of Chatham) to oppose someone (not an American citizen) who was trying to buy 2200 acres of farmland that sits on two pipelines. 1100 of this backs up to my family’s farm. It will RUIN life as we know it. NO FOREIGN NATIONAL SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PURCHASE IN EXCESS OF 1(?)-10(?)-100(?) ACRES OF LAND ON US SOIL. Not under ANY circumstance should 1,000 acres+ even be in question. Said buyer reduced purchase application to 1600 acres. This is still ruining life for locals, changing agricultural land to industrial in the middle of beautiful farmland, legacy land, and homes. IT HAS TO BE VOTED AGAINST, immediately!!! Enough is enough.

[47394 (Bertha Glenn Pelton)]

I agree no more purchase of our land by foreigners also we need to take back ownership of all our meat processing plants. Also stop sending some of our products to China to have them do part of the process then they send it back to us to mark as our product. When I think it has been contaminated.
Gates bought thousand of acres of our farmland. We need that put back in farmland .
I also want to have a list when these parcels of land become available for sale. Evergreen and Black Rock are bankrupt or filed for it and some assets have been seized so we need to know where and how to bid on those.