Kansas Attorney Genera Kris Kobach returned to the Statehouse to once again urge the Kansas Legislature to ban foreign land purchases in the state under the assumption countries such as China are attempting to spy on and influence the U.S. the newest attempt to do so, Senate Bill 446, would ban foreign individual and corporate purchases of three or more acres of land. Foreign land leases would be capped at less than two years. Kobach says Kansas is the only state in the breadbasket that has no prohibition whatsoever, no restriction whatsoever, on foreign nationals and foreign corporations purchasing our land, which means it’s open season:
Kansas Senator Mike Thompson, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs, says with older farmers retiring and young people leaving rural areas, these areas are open to outside threats, leaving vast areas of the state vulnerable to acquisition by opportunistic bad actors from countries that wish Americans harm.
