This would be a great idea if a known recipient could be named, a recipient beneficiary who could apply the funds to border security. This is possible as explained below.
Then there is a question of who can authorize construction. This is also possible as explained below.
It needs to be more than 5B which is proposed for 200 miles. There are 800 miles that need funding, so propose 20B as a goal.
With 20B as the goal and an average $100 per year per donor, it would take 30 million Americans 5 years to raise 75% of the goal. Rich Americans could make up the difference of 5B by having 2 million of them donate $500 per year for 5 years.
As for the beneficiary and authority, a special pass-thru trust would need to be established as part of a nonprofit that would receive local, state, federal authorization to contract and build structures and systems according to the President’s border security plan.
But all the above would NOT need to be completed as the commitments themselves would translate to votes that would compel Congress to get it done.
There will a huge budget battle starting the first week of September with the President following through on his threat to shut down the government unless Congress gets him funding for the Wall.
Earlier this year, the budget battle was hampered by military funding fights. But Congress finally acquiesced and gave the President 700B for 2019 and 719B for 2020. So military funding is off the table for this September.
The President holds all cards to shut it down before midterms. And we can be assured he will not back down. The shutdown will be extremely popular with Americans just as it was in 2013 over Obamacare but where voters were betrayed by Boehner. Americans want the Wall and they will get it.
Perhaps a people’s march on DC would help Congress find their gonads.
Bottom line and we should never forget it!