{"id":2837,"date":"2023-01-18T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:37:49","slug":"a-texas-bill-to-ban-foreign-land-purchases-raises-key-national-security-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2023\/01\/18\/a-texas-bill-to-ban-foreign-land-purchases-raises-key-national-security-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"A Texas Bill To Ban Foreign Land Purchases Raises Key National Security Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Texas bill to ban citizens and foreign entities tied to China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying Texas land highlights a potential national security vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham has filed bill <mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0); color: #0693e3\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/tlodocs\/88R\/billtext\/html\/SB00147I.htm\">Senate Bill 147<\/a><\/strong><\/mark><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0); color: #000000\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"> . The bill would prohibit the purchase or acquisition of property by a \u201cgovernmental entity\u201d or a company headquartered in or \u201cdirectly or indirectly controlled\u201d by a government of China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0); color: #000000\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">The measure, which Gov. Greg Abbott has signaled he would sign into law if it reaches his desk, also would prohibit citizens of those nations from owning land in Texas.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A bill is filed in Texas legislature to ban citizens, governments &amp; entities of China, Iran, North Korea &amp; Russia from purchasing land in Texas.<br><br>I will sign it.<br><br>This follows a law I signed banning those countries from threatening our infrastructure.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0b3LiQZHmE\">https:\/\/t.co\/0b3LiQZHmE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1614686215676084226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Lois Kolkhorst contends that the acquisition of Texas land by the Chinese government is a national security issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe growing ownership of Texas land by some foreign entities is highly disturbing and raises red flags for many Texans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/senate.texas.gov\/members\/d18\/press\/en\/p20221212a.pdf\">said Senator Kolkhorst<\/a>, author of the controversial Senate Bill 147. \u201cBy comparison, as an American go try to buy land near a Chinese military base and see how it works out for you. It would never happen there and it shouldn\u2019t happen here. Passing this law delivers some basic safeguards to ensure Texans remain in control of Texas land.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas bill to ban citizens and foreign entities tied to China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying Texas land highlights a potential national security vulnerability. Texas State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham has filed bill Senate Bill 147 . The bill would prohibit the purchase or acquisition of property by a \u201cgovernmental entity\u201d or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3816],"tags":[3817,899,3819,2531,3818,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-2837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ban-sale-of-land","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-national-security","12":"tag-north-korea","13":"tag-texas"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}