Epoch Times:
EL PASO—A particular half-mile of new border fencing has brought significant meaning to many Americans that the existing 654 miles don’t hold.
It was built from donations that started pouring in late last year, when combat veteran Brian Kolfage set up a GoFundMe account after Congress failed to appropriate the amount that President Donald Trump requested for border barrier.
As the first piece was being completed in a high cross-border crime area near El Paso, several Angel families—those whose loved ones have been killed by illegal immigrants—traveled to Sunland Park, New Mexico, to see it for themselves.
Michelle Balogh, the sister of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, said the new wall symbolizes “security for our country, for our agents, for us Americans.”
Terry was killed in a shootout in 2010 while attempting to arrest five illegal aliens near Nogales, Arizona.
“They were here to do harm,” Balogh said. “I’m not saying that every illegal comes over here to do harm, but there’s a lot of criminal, illegal aliens that come here to commit crime, kill our Americans, and get away with it.”
She said seeing the new wall is “bittersweet” and that Terry would be “absolutely ecstatic” to see it. “It’ll be protecting his brothers in green.”
A lot more here
I wanted to donate but was scared off by the fake news about this being a scam and that the money had to be refunded because it didn’t hit a billion dollars.
Thanks to sleazy politicians and the media I don’t trust anyone. This is what they have wrought in America.
I know how much this border mess bothers me and then I think of these folks who’s lost family and it’s hard to fathom their pain especially when this is all so unnecessary and driven purely by greed of the influential.
I donated and will again. Looks like they are doing an excellent job.
Have donated — it’s better than paying taxes to be used by a=holes like pelosi.
I’ve donated too, and will again. Every donation helps.
Watched the videos this weekend of them building it, it was fantastic! They closed off either 17 or 19 cartel trails including the main trail/road used by the Sinoloa (sp?). The foreman talked about the rate of build and that they were able — over a weekend, mind you — to build up and to an area, 31% grade, that the Corps of Engineers told them was impossible to build on. They had engaged 600 concrete trucks and one of the pump trucks had a boom that was 175′. They cut a speedway parallel to the wall for the Border Patrol to use and in addition to the 7′ wall footings, they were also pouring the speedway. Because of the steep grade, they had to cut and fill platforms that would hold the pump and concrete trucks at each section of the wall. And, apparently, the company that is building it was one that lost out on the earlier bidding processes. Can’t keep a good cause down.