Crowd-Funded 'We Build the Wall' Starts Texas Project Despite 'Butterfly People', 'Rogue Priests', and 'Freaks'
By Todd Bensman on November 26, 2019
MISSION, Texas — Punchy Trumpian monikers and Washington, D.C.-style partisan controversy showed up right behind the non-profit known as "We Build the Wall" as it bulldozed its way into the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas this month to start its second project.
Busy orchestrating ground work on a new 3.5-mile section of 18-foot-high steel bollard wall in the Rio Grande floodplain on a private sugar cane farm, the group's most iconic character (among many), "Foreman Mike" Furey, seemed to take pleasure in colorfully referencing project opponents. There was "the butterfly lady up the street", the "rogue priest" who surveilled the work from a "fancy" private river boat, and other "freaks" running around with their "broken moral compasses".
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