The Michael Barry show number of you've asked the question can a foreigner own land in Texas and the answer is yes

It goes back to governor Jim Hogg about a hundred. I don't know exactly the year, but

Jim Hogg was governor and you had mostly British European British German French companies that owned a lot of

North East Texas the Tyler area and it was a hot bed

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mine an iron ore mine that was

That was very rich with iron ore the foreign companies came countries foreign based companies came in

bought up the land and

We're mining the iron ore and a lot of wealth was being created governor hogg said I don't want foreigners to do this

You must be an American citizen to buy land in Texas the foreign interests sold

Moved out Texans bought it

Once that happened it went all the way to the Supreme Court Supreme Court said you cannot require American citizenship to own land in the United States

This would also have a huge impact on

Drilling rights because in northeast Texas you had the largest proliferation of independent drillers in the world to this day

I mean non-shell non-BP

Non-SO non-big guys and that was because at the time these lands changed hands and

It was required that an American and almost exclusively a Texan owned the land

Michael Barry