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Private Group Building Border Wall In New Mexico Ordered To Stop

We Build the Wall has raised over $22 million through a GoFundMe campaign to build portions of wall to fill in gaps in the current barrier.

Private Group Building Border Wall In New Mexico Ordered To Stop
We Build the Wall
Article by Katie Cammarata
SMS
May 29, 2019

A New Mexico mayor says a private group that started building part of a U.S.-Mexico border wall has been ordered to stop. 

The group — named "We Build the Wall" — started building the "structure without authority or any building permits from the city," according to a spokesperson for the city of Sunland Park.

Mayor Javier Perea told a local news outlet that the owner of the land where the wall was to be built submitted paperwork for a permit before the group started construction, but that paperwork wasn't complete and a cease-and-desist order was filed. 

We Build the Wall has raised over $22 million since December through a GoFundMe campaign to build portions of wall to fill in gaps in the current barrier. 

Kris Kobach — a spokesman for We Build the Wall and former Kansas secretary of state — said city officials gave the group the "all-clear." Perea disputed that statement.