Organizers say the section was also built faster and more cheaply than the government has been able to manage in recent years. Unexpectedly!
A lot of sites link to a truncated article about this construction project by the increasingly disappointing Washington Times, but I found a much more informative article from a great source - a local New Mexico news station; complete with a terrific time-lapsed video.
From Mauricio Casillas and Saul Saenz at ABC 7 KVIA: "In an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday, (Kris Kobach, a former secretary of state in Kansas and advisor for We Build The Wall) said, "This is the first time any private organization has built a portion of the wall on private land. It's happening right here in the El Paso area, and it's not just any piece of land. This piece of land is right where the El Paso wall -- that separates El Paso and Ciudad Juarez -- where that wall ends there's been a half-mile gap between the existing wall and Mt. Cristo Rey."
That gap was exploited by criminals for human smuggling and drug smuggling.
ABC 7 KVIA continues, "During the interview with Fox & Friends, Kobach said, "The Army Corps of Engineers said this piece of land is too rugged to build on, you can't build there. Well, we built the wall and proved them wrong."
Kobach told ABC-7 Fisher Industries is using patented techniques to build several sections of the barrier at a time. Kobach said the steel used on this barrier has a lifespan of 75 years, longer, he says, than steel used by government contractors."
I won't embed the video here because the guys who created this news story deserve all the glory. Click on over for a quick view of this constrution project.
