While Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker continues to hail the deal he struck last year with the Taiwanese electronics firm Foxconn to build a factory in the state—with the vocal support of President Donald Trump—reports out of southeastern Wisconsin show that the agreement, ostensibly meant to boost the economy and employment, is so far holding few benefits for Wisconsinites.

According to a recent report in Belt Magazine, efforts to push residents of Racine County, where the factory is slated to open in 2019, are well underway eight months after Walker finalized the deal amid much fanfare—and with little to no input from locals.

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With the local officials trying to seize over 3,000 acres of agriculture and residential properties with eminent domain orders and by designating the area “blighted,” some homeowners are mounting a legal challenge against the effort.

Following a recent community meeting, Belt Magazine reporter Lawrence Tabak told the public radio station WUWM, “It was a sad litany of homeowners stepping before the committee and demonstrating, without much equivocation, that their properties certainly didn’t look blighted…It was quite an emotional and sad event.”

“I’ve lived in my home for 28 years,” one resident, Joe Jacanek, said to a community board. “I’m a tax-paying citizen and I deserve better than this, to just be kicked to the curb and thrown out of my residence.”

The homeowners’ plight has caught the attention of the pro bono law firm the Institute for Justice.

A lawyer from the firm, Anthony Sanders, attended the meeting and called the efforts to obtain homeowners’ land “a textbook case of eminent domain abuse.”

“Make no mistake. If there is a legal challenge, you will lose. You will not be able to take these people’s homes,” Sanders told the board.