NEWS ALERT: 17 GOP Governors Call On Biden, Congressional Leaders To Prevent Foreign Adversaries From Buying US Land

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FIRST ON FOX: Seventeen governors are calling on federal leaders, including President Biden, to prevent foreign adversaries like China from buying U.S. land, Fox News Digital has learned.

Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leading a letter, with 16 of her fellow GOP governors, to Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and congressional leaders in both chambers to tackle the growing issue of China buying American land, including farmland.

“Numerous governors and state legislatures have taken action to protect our citizens from the imminent national security threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” the governors wrote.

In the letter, the 17 governors write, “It is no secret the communist regime in China is acquiring swaths of real property throughout the United States. Very recently, Gotion, Inc., a subsidiary of a Chinese-controlled Gotion High-Tech, Inc., bought two hundred and seventy acres of land in Green Charter Township, Michigan, not far from the Camp Grayling National Guard facility.”

“For too long, we have allowed dangerous and adversarial governments to infiltrate our country. Our States will tolerate such allowances no longer. The Biden Administration must reckon with the fact that such entities are plain threats to our national security, our farmers, and our citizenry. This is especially true since the CCP enacted a law in 2017 requiring Chinese citizens abroad to collaborate with Chinese security officials on intelligence work – no questions asked,” the governors wrote.

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In addition to Sanders, the letter is signed by Republican Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Brad Little of Idaho, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Governor-elect Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Greg Gianforte of Montana, Jim Pillen of Nebraska, Doug Burgum of North Dakota, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Greg Abbott of Texas, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Jim Justice of West Virginia, and Mark Gordon of Wyoming.

“I was the first Governor in America to kick a Chinese state-owned company off our farmland. Now, I’m leading 17 states to tell Pres. Biden, Sec. Yellen, and Congress to protect our land from the CCP. We simply can’t trust those who pledge allegiance to a hostile foreign power,” Sanders declared in a social media post.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngking declared, “Virginians, not the Chinese Communist Party, should own the Commonwealth’s rich and vibrant agricultural lands.”

South Dakota Gov. Krisiti Noem has also been sounding the alarm, and voiced her support for a state bill to prohibit China and other nations for owning U.S. agriculture land.