SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — Down a bumpy dirt road, past a dozen “No Trespassing” signs, two amateur sentries in neon safety vests guarded the way to a giant symbol of Trump-era politics rising up from the Chihuahuan Desert.
On Wednesday, former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach offered a tour of the wall — at one point scrambling over crumbling hillside to demonstrate the difficulty of passing the terrain — while negotiating with local officials over a permitting issue that threatened to derail construction. Kobach said he last spoke to Trump about the wall project in the Oval Office three weeks ago, and that the president drilled him on the technical specifications, expressing special interest in their model’s anti-climbing features, a set of horizontal steel plates covering the tops of the wall’s vertical slats. “Are you going to paint it?” Kobach recalled the president asking him., the United Constitutional Patriots, was recently detaining migrants as they enter the United States.
On Wednesday evening, Jim Benvie, previously the spokesman for the United Constitutional Patriots, and now with a splinter group called the Guardian Patriots, showed up at the construction site. Benvie took issue with the group being described as “militia” or “vigilante.” He said the groups operated legally and complained that media coverage of the groups had been misleading. “There is a big difference between carrying a gun and pointing a gun,” he said.
A spokesman for Customs and Border Patrol said that Fisher Industries had notified the agency of the project. “It is not uncommon for vendors to undertake demonstrations of their capabilities utilizing their own resources,” said the CBP spokesman. “ We encourage all interested vendors to compete for border barrier contracts through established mechanisms to ensure any construction is carried out under relevant federal authorities and meets USBP operational requirements for border barrier.
Somojz being done even by the citizenry while the Congress is forever stalemated in selfishness and irresponsibility! One of the worst Congress of seemingly all time in terms of filibustering and fiefdoms construction.
It will be torn down eventually...these people are IDIOTS!!!
American ingenuity & pride! The American patriots rose again! This is just the beginning!
Wonder who is profiting from this? Trump, personal friends? Sounds like pay for play. Didn't hipocrite trump called out HRC on this issue? Trump should throw a towel over lady liberty head. Cause she is getting screwed by trump.
This is not a wall and will not stop drugs being passed through. Another failure by a failure President.