That land used to have nothin much on it, so it was cheap land, and the property taxes were low.
30 million was spent on building the private wall. I don’t think this money came from the land owner. (This is the crowd funded Trump Wall, right?)
With the fancy new wall on it, the property is now appraised at around 20 million (or maybe whatever it was plus 20 million). Whether it’s 75 times or 100 times what it was before is not super important. The point is it went from not much to quite a bit.
Property taxes went up in accordance with the new valuation.
Property owner is probably not wealthy enough to pay the taxes, so big picture he can’t continue to own the property.
What they’re saying is this: