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You Got the Letter. Here's What Happens Next. You are sitting at a kitchen table in Redford, or in Pilares, or in a ranch house your family has worked for five generations, and there is a letter on the table from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It says the government wants to come onto your land to survey. It says that if you do not let them, they can take your property through eminent domain. The letter sounds like a formality. It is not. It is the opening move of a federal condemnation proceeding, and how you respond in the next thirty days will determine whether the government pays you a fair price for your land or steals it from your family at a number their appraiser pulled out of thin air. Joe Carrasco, a 71-year-old retired oil-field worker in Redford, received one of these letters. His family has been on the banks of the Rio Grande since before he was born. He raises cattle and grows alfalfa. He can see the mountains on the Mexican side of the river from his carport. The government is now telling him that the same river his family has irrigated from for over…