Border ranchers receive 2nd notice from feds threatening to revoke land rights

ZAPATA, Texas (Border Report) — Nearly 200 ranchers in rural Zapata County on the South Texas border with Mexico have been told by the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission that their families’ decades-old land grazing rights along the Rio Grande are being terminated, and they must move their cattle by month’s end during this coronavirus pandemic when many slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants are closed.Zapata County Judge Joe Rathmell was among 117 ranchers who r