Private border wall construction halts after New Mexico town protests

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

MAY 29, 2019 / 2:59 PM / UPDATED 39 MINUTES AGO
Andrew Hay


TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - A U.S. group building what it claims is the first private wall on the Mexican border wall on Wednesday said it had stopped construction after a New Mexico town ruled the project lacked necessary permits.

Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Tuesday ordered We Build the Wall to stop erecting the steel barrier on private land in an area that the group calls “ground zero for illegal drugs, migrants and human sex slaves coming across.” Sunland Park is located in the southeast corner of New Mexico, on the Mexican border and about 9 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas.

The group on its website, in describing its mission, says: “If the Democrats won’t provide the funding for what the American people voted for in 2016 then we the people will.”

The group’s list of members of its advisory board and various committees and operations includes Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL who founded the controversial private security firm Blackwater; former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach; and former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, among others. It has raised over $23 million on its gofundmepage and vowed to resume construction.

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[TygrBright]

1. Just a guess, but it's the "human sex slaves" idea that gets them all excited. n/t

[Cal Carpenter]

5. And 'humans' as opposed to what? Robots? Goats?

[TygrBright]

6. Goats would probably excite them too... n/t

[hibbing]

2. "If the Democrats won't provide the funding for what the American people voted for in 2016"

Uh...hey buddy, all the deplorables voted for tiny hands because just like tiny hands said, the American people will pay for the wall!


Peace

[Fresh_Start]

3. Please let them be forced to tear down their wall and return the site to its

pre-construction condition

[elleng]

4. Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL who founded the controversial private security firm Blackwater;

former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach; and former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo

[pazzyanne]

7. A stellar group of board members - NOT!

[Kaiserguy]

10. I see two name mising from that list

The men who are the CEO'S of right-wing America's stupid hatful ideas. Putin/Trump they are the main inspiration for all of their hate and their many misdeeds

[wasupaloopa]

8. " funding for what the American people voted for in 2016 " I thought they voted for Mexico to

provide the funding.

[tazkcmo]

9. The American People

We did not vote for the wall, we voted for Hillary Clinton by a few million. The Electoral College, the supposed safe guard the founders created to prevent the hoi poi from electing a narcissistic lunatic, elected the lunatic and his wall. Let the MAGAts keep sending their money to Prince and his Keystone Cohorts because very little will be left to build their wall after those shysters get their cut. Idiots.

As for the stupidity required to blissfully build shit on someone's private property, we all know they'll soon do something more profoundly stupid.

[Jakes Progress]

11. What a great scam.

What you need for a scam to work is foolish people. prince, kobach, and the other dark knights know that their constituents are idiots, but they are passionate idiots. Raise $23 million from those dopes. Build a $2 million wall. Divide the $21 million left over and pocket millions of dollars donated by idiots.

Wish I had thought of that. Can't think of a better group to swindle.

[ucrdem]

12. I where the construction workers are from

and what their documentation status is.

[paleotn]

13. Hey, whatever....

If they want to waste their money on private land, knock yourselves out. What's that old saying about fools and their money? And you wonder how the two ever got together in the first place.

[keithbvadu2]

14. "If the Democrats won't provide the funding for what the American people voted for in 2016"

"If the Democrats won't provide the funding for what the American people voted for in 2016"

Trump's republican Senate refused to provide the funding back in Dec.

The American people voted for Hillary.

Kolfage bought a 'yacht' with his newfound donation money.

[TeamPooka]

15. It's going to wind up a Border Wall Theme Park for right wing tourists

Look out Disneyland.

[ArizonaLib]

16. What a bunch of idiots!

Starting it on private land? Collect $23 million and not be able to use it? I thought they said they were the party of fiscal responsibility. It is going to be interesting to watch as they look to repurpose that money and lawsuits start - and then start up again as they actually start spending the money on other stupid crap. Nothing more wasteful than a bunch of republicans with money and nothing legal to spend it on.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. So is this great wall going to end up looking like a patchwork quilt

after all the manifestations of this fence are connected? They've got one group doing this, the government doing that, with God knows how many other nuts are going to come down the Pike with other designs. It'll be as ugly and disjointed as the tRump administration.