Posted on 05/27/2019 9:13:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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 the wall through his GoFundMe project, but it appeared to be floundering until Bannon took the helm.
Bannon, who for much of the weekend was in Kazakhstan for a geopolitical seminar, says the project, overseen by construction mogul Tommy Fisher of North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, involved hundreds of workers and cost $6 million.
He says his group asked local authorities what is the most dangerous part of the border with Mexico, and they were pointed to this precarious mountain strip, “where the cartels and asylum seekers are coming in” through a gap between two 21-mile strips of completed wall. The group hastily “purchased the rights” to the land and went at it Friday evening. “We had to catch them by surprise,” says Bannon, who predicts residents are “gonna freak out” when they see what was erected over the past two days.
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Why is the byline from Spain?
Right in Beto backyard....ha.ha.
Every bit helps.
Obama “You didn’t build that”
American citizens “Yes we did !!!”
Patriots like these who keep the “I CAN” In AmerICAN !
Any chance this is American steel?
If this fence is on the line one could not stop someone on the mexican side if they were cutting a hole in the fence.
What happens when someone climbs it and falls off and is injured? Is the owner going to be liable?
I may have to have the smile surgically removed.
Bravo, Steve Bannon.
We are indeed fortunate to have someone of your obviously superior intelligence watching out for us.
It couldn't possibly be that it's still under construction.
The only possible explanation is that they deliberately built a wall with gaps in it so that it would not work and they think we are dumb enough to fall for it.
And you are the only one who caught it!
Thank God for Einsteins like you!
“it doesn’t look like it goes far under ground to deter diggers”
This kind of effort is meant to stop the hoards casually walking across the border, not small numbers of especially athletic individuals or those with special skills.
I don’t know what the operational plan is, but the sensible thing would be for the organization to deed the stretch of land including the wall to the US Government once it’s complete, with the DHS taking on all residual liabilities.
Who is going to defend and repair it? The border patrol has to repair sections of our wall frequently due to the fact that they cut holes in it.
5 year warranty. after that. I do not know.
If this fence is on the line one could not stop someone on the mexican side if they were cutting a hole in the fence.
Fiber system trips the moment something happens, it’s very thick steel. you won’t be using a cordless sawzall on it.
What happens when someone climbs it and falls off and is injured? Is the owner going to be liable?
toss um back over.
How does it compare to the wall you built?
I think it is a good move, but in the pictures it doesn’t look like it goes far under ground to deter diggers, unless I am missing something.
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You can tell the depth of the wall underground just by looking at photos of what’s above ground? Man, you have some extraordinary vision capabilities!
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