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The Owner of Fisher Industries, who is behind the border fence project in Mission, spoke with CBS 4 on Tuesday and wants to clear up the misconceptions about his border security plans. Tommy Fisher, president and CEO of Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., which is based out of Tempe, AZ, purchased three miles of river front in Mission from landowner, Lance Neuhaus. Despite there being a state and federal temporary restraining order against Fisher Industries, Fisher said they are allowed to prepare for the construction of the border fence. "We're allowed to dig the trench, where eventually the wall will...

A Dickinson, North Dakota-based company has been awarded a 400-million dollar contract for construction of the border wall. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the work will be performed in Yuma, Arizona, and provides design-build border infrastructure along the southern border perimeter of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, a release said. “Fisher Industries will receive almost $270 million of this nearly $400 million project, which will go toward designing and building physical barriers along about 31 miles of the southern border in Yuma, Arizona,” said Senator Kevin Cramer. “I am glad to see more progress...

BARCELONA, Spain — In what might be seen as a Memorial Day gift to President Trump, residents of a mountain range outside of El Paso today woke up to a new vista—a mile-long wall of metal slats constructed along the border with Mexico that just shot up over the weekend. The secret project, which started on Friday evening and was completed by Monday morning, was the work of We Build the Wall, a new group whose director is the former White House strategist Steve Bannon. The CEO is Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, who had raised $20 million to build...