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FLORIDA LAUNCHES PROBE INTO GROUP BEHIND PRIVATE BORDER WALL
The Daily Caller ^ | May 30, 2019 | Andrew Kerr

Posted on 05/30/2019 1:36:08 PM PDT by bobsunshine

Consumer complaints have prompted the state of Florida to open an investigation into the nonprofit group that raised more than $20 million to build a private border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The investigation into the Florida-based group, We Build The Wall, was launched in mid-May, a spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture said in a statement Thursday.

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Kolfage and his team insisted they had to remain silent in the lead-up to breaking ground in order to avoid lawsuits from groups like the ACLU.

“Remember powerful people want to stop our progress, so to not tip anyone off we are radio silent!!” Kolfage wrote in a Facebook post in May.

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Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea was also caught by surprise. He announced Tuesday a cease and desist order to the private landowner where We Build The Wall’s barrier was built, alleging a permit wasn’t obtained prior to construction and that the structure was built in violation of a city ordinance.

Kolfage said his organization received the “green light to build” prior to breaking ground and said the city’s cease and desist was “bullshit.”

Kolfage announced Thursday morning that Sunland Park rescinded its order and authorized his group to resume construction.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; florida; newmexico; theleft; wall
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To: bobsunshine

Video from a press conference this AM. They are building again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMT8IkF7go


21 posted on 05/30/2019 1:59:41 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: bobsunshine

What business it of Florida’s?

They have enough problems of their own to worry about. They need to mind their own business.


22 posted on 05/30/2019 2:05:33 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Brown Deer; bobsunshine; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...

Here is a link to the go-fund-me/The Wall page; scroll down and see L. side for later updates.

https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall

Thanks for those links, Brown Deer.


23 posted on 05/30/2019 2:05:47 PM PDT by LucyT (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall)
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To: Brown Deer

I always knew libs were morons but at least I thought they could read a simple map.


24 posted on 05/30/2019 2:06:09 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: bobsunshine

Back around 1970 I’d ride my dirt bike into the NM desert from El Paso. The international border (oddly no one seemed to know where the TX-NM border was) was marked with a 4-wire fence and border obelisks every mile or so. Place was completely empty. I remember riding up to a locked gate that had a trail leading to it from Mexico. It did have hours listed on when it was opened to traffic.

I remember being struck by how closely the border was monitored in El Paso (even then) and how just a few miles away there appeared to be nobody minding the store at all.


25 posted on 05/30/2019 2:08:28 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: clintonh8r
Most floridians are too ill informed to know how powerful SecAg is.

Agree, Dale Peterson learned me all 'bout that.

26 posted on 05/30/2019 2:10:50 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: bobsunshine

“Consumer complaints”

LOL, yeah sure.


27 posted on 05/30/2019 2:22:18 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: clintonh8r
How she won I’ll never understand.

Palm Beach County and their never-ending recounts that lasted through December 2018. A deeply 'D'emocrat dominated county, the Supervisor of Elections (SoE) Susan Bucher, had endless excuses for failing to meet multiple legal deadlines on the 2018 election. The outcome was to hold 3 state-wide races in question, Governor between DeSantis(R) & Gillum(D), US Senator between Scott(R) & Nelson(D) and State Cabinet Agriculture between Caldwell(R) & Fried(D). DeSantis and Scott were successful but Palm Beach County gave Fried enough votes to be elected.

There is unprovable suspicion that with many not voting on this office and supported by the fact that Caldwell got (in PB County) 5k fewer votes (234k) than the next lowest 'R' state-wide (DeSantis at 239k) then there may have been ballot marking in the back room there. Caldwell lost by 6.7k votes statewide. The fact is that the Democrat SoE refused entry to observers for most of a week following the election and one does smell a DemocRAT odor.

FYI Governor DeSantis did use his executive power to replace Ms Bucher this year.

28 posted on 05/30/2019 2:22:25 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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Just the anti-USA left! TRAITORS!


29 posted on 05/30/2019 2:23:25 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: akalinin

Too bad part of that 20 million is going to be spent defending themselves against frivolous lawsuits and leftists judges


That’s the lefts entire purpose, in life.

Bleed the conservative coffers with frivolous lawsuits.


30 posted on 05/30/2019 3:11:58 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

DJT is making a statement today or tomorrow re: the border -

I wish he would shut it down til Congress gives him money


31 posted on 05/30/2019 3:59:43 PM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: bitt
I wish he would shut it down til Congress gives him money

This congress will never allocate the money. The Demoncrats would allow us to be invaded by an armed army before they would allow that.

32 posted on 05/30/2019 4:02:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: bitt

DJT is making a statement today or tomorrow re: the border -
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He specifically said he won’t be ordering closure, but that it is his biggest border action/statement yet.

I’m not clear if it is only a statement or if there is an action component.


33 posted on 05/30/2019 4:31:59 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: TexasGurl24

See if Fried got campaign money from Soros. He has several multi-million front operating trying to elect (and has successfully in some key states), Marxist Secretaries of State (Minn), AGs (Ellison, Minn), and Secy of Agriculture which for some halfassed reasons were given the power to issue gun permits, building permits, etc.

Time to investigate the crooks and put them behind “walls”, 4 of them with bars and barbed wire.


34 posted on 05/30/2019 9:52:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“Time to investigate the crooks and put them behind “walls”, 4 of them with bars and barbed wire.”

F’ that..... let em drop.

No need to further waste taxpayer monies besides it will be a deterrent to those who may decide to repeat said behaviors.


35 posted on 06/03/2019 12:21:17 PM PDT by A Voice (As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
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