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Veteran’s Private Border Wall Project Builds First Section Near El Paso After Raising $22 Million
By Charlotte Cuthbertson and Petr Svab

An Air Force veteran who lost three limbs in the Iraq War has built a wall on a short section of the U.S.-Mexico border, delivering on a promise to hundreds of thousands of donors.

Brian Kolfage raised more than $22 million and plans to build the wall mile-by-mile in strategic locations, getting permits from local private landowners.

Construction work started May 17 in the El Paso, Texas, metropolitan area, where an influx of illegal immigrants has drastically escalated in recent months—more than 600 percent in the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector in the first seven months of fiscal 2019, compared with the same period the year before.

The wall has a similar design to that used by the Trump administration, made of ...

Full article:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/veterans-private-border-wall-project-builds-first-section-near-el-paso-after-raising-22-million_2939565.html

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