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 vistaa 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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As soon as the media returns from its weekend at the gay bars, it is going to freak.
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LOL! Now that there is funny and also quite true!
Now is the time to start contributing again to WE BUILD THE WALL.
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Yes, I sent them another hundred bucks this morning.
5 deep concrete under it, per text in video. Did ya watch the video?
From the local (El Paso Times)....
El Paso leaders react (Whaaaambulance alert)
Some El Paso leaders were upset about being the focus of outside efforts at border security.
“Its deeply disturbing when outsiders, like Kris Kobach and Steve Bannon, come in and use our community and people as a backdrop to further their racist agenda,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said in a statement. “Its even more disturbing that a business in our community is furthering this xenophobic narrative. While this wall may be necessary fuel for the presidents political campaign, it will not prevent people from seeking asylum.”
She also noted the business ties between Trump and the company building the wall.
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said he was not completely informed about the privately funded border fence, but he said national interests have often failed to include local leadership in their plans.
I dont know that these isolated random situations will create even more of a division between us in our own community, Samaniego said of the often strong feelings that come with discussions of a border wall.
The city and county of El Paso have called on the federal government to reimburse the local governments for services provided to immigrants seeking U.S. asylum, he noted.
That collaboration that should be taking place would solve so many (issues), he said. Its almost embarrassing how the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing in the country.....
(More at link)....
Ever notice how racists are always calling other people racists?
Yes, I’ve noticed.
Funny....the city is overrun with illegals....churches cannot even handle the overflow.
The citizens of the city fear drive by cartel shootings, kidnappings, etc.
Yet...here you have the ignorant, leftist local ‘leaders’ claiming this ASSIST is racist.
Yes, good job Bannon :)
Don’t toss ‘em back over... anywhere along the border barrier!
Just let them lie there. Carrion-eaters, like coyotes and vultures have to eat, too. ...The bones that would be later seen by illegal intruders might serve to make them think twice about making the attempt.
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