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Related: About this forumConservatives head to Texas to try to build their own wall
HOUSTON (AP) What started as an online fundraiser to provide President Donald Trump with donations for his southern border wall has morphed into a foundation whose members vow to build a wall themselves.
The "We The People Will Build the Wall" campaign has surpassed $20 million since it was created in December by Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage. The campaign has received almost 350,000 donations even as wall opponents derided the effort and after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended with Congress refusing Trump's demand for billions in wall funding.
Kolfage and other Trump supporters have now organized a nonprofit corporation, WeBuildtheWall Inc. Its board of directors includes former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a hardline immigration opponent who has advised Trump. The group spent part of this week in South Texas touring the U.S.-Mexico border and meeting landowners the group hopes will allow private construction on their land.
Whether a private group could build such a wall remains to be seen. There are legal and environmental obstacles in South Texas that have delayed the U.S. government, even with its powers to seize land and waive laws for national security.
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Gothmog
(144,939 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,953 posts)blur256
(979 posts)Don't they have stand your ground laws in Texas? The people whose land they want to confiscate don't want to give up the land so... not advocating violence (never would) but why do they think this is a good idea?
2naSalit
(86,332 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)silver lining: the more money they abscond with, the less the donors have for campaigns.
3catwoman3
(23,950 posts)No surprise there.
keithbvadu2
(36,667 posts)meeting landowners the group hopes will allow private construction on their land. Good luck with that.
That should be a short list.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)....I'd tell these skeevy fucks to stay off my land, or face some life-threatening consequences.