Epoch Times: 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 steel bollards buried several feet deep in the ground and standing 20 to 25 feet above ground. The first section is about a half-mile long and cost less than $10 million. That appears to be comparable to what the government has generally been paying for its wall construction. Kolfage’s press team said the price spiked due to difficult terrain. Expectations are to build at about half the cost of the government.
“We can’t release full costs yet because of ongoing contracts we are in bid process with,” the team said, via a text message. keep reading
Regular Americans, doing the jobs Congress just won’t do.
Congratulations to this American patriot warrior who still serves despite losing 3 limbs in combat. He’s a special kind of person for whom I stand in awe.
I’m proud to own a little piece of that wall. God bless Brian Kolfage.
The section they are showing being built is a section the Army Corp of Engineers determined as unbuildable. Think about that.
On the ‘paid for holiday’ the grateful still honor their service and commitment to a county they love and respect!
These are patriots, these are true Americans.
The real ‘Memorial Day’ is this Friday, as these veterans continue to honor, instead of the ungrateful elected supposed that feign to support them.
These True Americans will win, always, as they have and continue to honor the oath they took,,,
MAGA!
Thank you! And thank you to all who donated. 👏
10 million dollars for a half mile of fence is what it cost! A HALF MILE of a 1,954 mile long border. This fence project is too expensive. Couldn’t we do it cheaper with surveillance drones? We’ll need surveillance drones eventually, anyway. The wall is too damn expensive compared to technology. You’re all fools for something that can be defeated with a tall enough ladder. Fools! We need surveillance drones, not a easily defeated, extremely expensive, useless, worthless, POS fence. We could do so much better with that money than this crap wall. Build that real security! Build that surveillance drone program!
did he buy the land? was it donated? bank deposits? receipts? expenditure records? … aren’t charitable organizations supposed to have ‘open books’? … am I being too naïve here?
not trying to be skeptical of the man, but I have questions … quell my doubt