One Mile: The Privately Funded Wall
[Headlines from DRJ]
El Paso Times – Privately funded border wall built at El Paso:
A private group has built a $6 million bollard-type wall at the border on private property near Mount Cristo Rey with funds raised from a GoFundMe account.
The segment of wall was paid for by the “We Build the Wall” organization on land owned by American Eagle Brick Company. It is by Monument One — an official marker at the spot where New Mexico, Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua converge — at Border Highway West, near Executive Center Boulevard.
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“Why wouldn’t we allow it?,” Allen asked. “We have dealt with illegals coming across. We have been attacked by illegals coming across. We have been burglarized by illegals. We have drug traffickers coming through here and anyone who is against this is against America.”
There are some familiar names involved in the project including Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach.
Related: We Build the Wall tour of border wall construction.
— DRJ
*shrug* Hellacious big fence, but private funding, private land, as long as they aren’t violating any zoning laws, regulations, treaties, or other laws, seems like it’s their business.
Nic (896fdf) — 5/27/2019 @ 10:50 pmOne mile is better then no mile.
lany (607ae7) — 5/28/2019 @ 1:03 amAmerican Patriots that give a schiff.
mg (8cbc69) — 5/28/2019 @ 2:56 amGood advertising for American Eagle Brick Company, but I suspect that illegals will just go around. An actual systematic border plan seems to make a little more sense, more than this bit of virtue signaling.
Paul Montagu (7968e9) — 5/28/2019 @ 8:15 amIt Can Be Done, Amigo.
nk (dbc370) — 5/28/2019 @ 8:32 am¡Sí, se puede!
nk (dbc370) — 5/28/2019 @ 8:36 amFrom the second link:
DRJ (15874d) — 5/28/2019 @ 8:46 amMt. Cristo Rey
I guess they need to build another 1.5 miles.
DRJ (15874d) — 5/28/2019 @ 8:49 amHere’s the link to the New York Times’ story from a quarter-century ago on the border wall put in place in the El Paso area, including the same area being discussed today, by then El Paso Sector Border Patrol Chief Sylvestre Reyes. It involved actual Border Patrol agents as well as fencing standing in place to keep people out, and did not make the Clinton Administration people in Washington very happy. But it worked well enough he became Congressman Sylvestre Reyes at few years later, and served for 16 years before being defeated in the Democratic primary by Beto O’Rourke.
There really was a bad problem at the border in the late 1980s and early ’90s there, which didn’t simply involve illegal immigrants, but illgals coming into the U.S. to commit crimes and then in many cases going back into Juarez. Reyes’ border wall worked for El Paso in lowering the crime rate in the same way and at the same time that Rudy Giulani’s reforms slashed the crime rate in New York, and it helped keep the worst of Juarez’s drug gang violence a decade ago from spilling over onto the U.S. side.
That doesn’t mean a border wall isn’t needed or useful everywhere along the border. But it does show that the wall had a positive effect in certain parts of the border.
John (c7bcb1) — 5/28/2019 @ 11:31 am#8
The Diocese of El Paso owns the land?
If so, my guess is they won’t let a wall be built short of some land seizure or maybe as part of a sex abuse by priest settlement that gives the land to a private party who then turns around and lets a wall be built
#9 Now I know why O’Rourke claimed the wall in El Paso doesn’t stop illegal immigration… it was built to stop cross border foraging expeditions and that is all.
steveg (354706) — 5/28/2019 @ 2:26 pmCity hits border wall builders with cease and desist notice
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/28/kolfage-border-wall-cease-desist/
steveg (354706) — 5/28/2019 @ 6:57 pmI’m glad to see that Bannon found himself another occupation — other than going around losing safe House and Senate seats for Republicans.
nk (dbc370) — 5/28/2019 @ 8:45 pmHere is an article about LA leftists taking federal money and doing kids worse than cages
steveg (354706) — 5/28/2019 @ 9:05 pmhttps://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-immigrant-children-group-home-casa-libre-peter-schey/