Update on the Crowd-Funded Border Wall in New Mexico
A fight with a federal water treaty agency reaching critical mass as wall builders lean in for expansion
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico – Depending on who’s talking, the half-mile long, 25-foot-high steel wall that seemed to go up suddenly on a mountainside here after Memorial Day is either an affront to proper democratic process and bureaucracy, or a magnificent edifice to a vast, unrequited patriotic will to protect America from the plague of Mexican cartels and illegal immigration.
One doubtless reality is that the first and only crowd-funded border wall ever built – by a private group known as "We Build the Wall" in under a week at a cost of $8 million of at least $20 million in individual donations given online last December – is going nowhere in any hurry. It's towering 18-foot-high, concrete-filled, 100-year steel bollards are sunk seven-feet deep in underground concrete up the side of a privately owned mountain. The army of construction workers wore red, white, and blue hard-hats during 24-hour shifts and cheered their accomplishment before the dust settled. The 20-foot-wide cement road alongside the wall was dubbed "Deplorable Way" for the obvious political irony.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Update-CrowdFunded-Border-Wall-New-Mexico
