The Agricultural land of the United States should be owned by Americans, not by foreign adversaries, hostile regimes, or those who actively seek to undermine the economic, food and national security of the American people. Right now, Federal law does not have a forceful provision that strictly denies entities and persons affiliated with foreign adversaries and state sponsors of terrorism from buying up American farmland. The same governments that hack our critical infrastructure, poison our communities with fentanyl and dare to surpass the United States on the world stage are slowly acquiring American farmland acre by acre, county by county, and state by state. (00:14–00:26)
CLAIM
Asserts that current federal law lacks strict provisions against foreign adversaries buying American farmland.
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