Privately funded organization We Build the Wall starts construction of border barrier in Texas
By David Montanaro
Fox News
5/27/2019
A privately funded organization called We Build the Wall began work this weekend on a project to erect a section of border wall near El Paso, Texas.
Former Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, said on “Fox & Friends” Monday that the project was undertaken because there is a “ridiculously large gap” near Mount Cristo Rey that drug and human smugglers are taking advantage of.
The barrier will be built on private land.
“This is the first time any private organization has built border wall on private land,” he told Pete Hegseth, adding that the Army Corps of Engineers had said previously that the strip of land was too rugged for fencing.
He said the project was funded through private donations to the organization.
“We’ll keep on building as long as people keep chipping in. The average contribution has been only $67 but so many people have chipped in,” said Kobach.
Kobach said plans are in the works to start a second project.
It came on the heels of a federal judge blocking President Trump from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, delivering what may prove a temporary setback on one of his highest priorities.
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr.’s order, issued Friday, prevents work from beginning on two of the highest-priority, Pentagon-funded wall projects — one spanning 46 miles in New Mexico and another covering 5 miles in Yuma, Ariz.
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