Thread: Border wall bidder getting death threats, deemed traitor because he is Hispanic

Border wall bidder getting death threats, deemed traitor because he is Hispanic

March 31, 2017


A U.S. worker builds a section of the border wall opposite the city of Ciudad Juarez, Nov. 9, 2016. (Reuters)

The owner of a Texas construction company interested in the massive border wall project along the U.S.-Mexico border said he is receiving death threats and being called a traitor in part because he is of Mexican descent.

“A lot of people are saying, ‘You’re Latino. How can you build a wall to keep other Latinos out?’” said Penna Group’s CEO Michael Evangelista-Ysasaga to The Washington Post.

The Fort-Worth businessman said it was not an easy decision to bid on the controversial project — not least because 80 percent of his workforce is Latino.

“We need to be a productive part of the solution, rather than sit on the sidelines,” Evangelista-Ysasaga said when Penna’s bid was first announced. He explained that one of the reasons he jumped in was that he had heard rumors that other firms might propose inhumane methods like electrified barriers.



Still, he said he has received dozens of menacing phone calls in the last few weeks. “[They are just] “random people calling into the office and just screaming,” he told the Post.

Approximately 200 companies have responded to the federal government’s requests for proposals for a solid concrete border wall and, according to the Post, 32 companies are Hispanic-owned.

“The American people have been asking our politicians for 35 years to do something about immigration, and nothing has been done,” he told the Dallas Morning News earlier this month.

“Our hope is that with a secure border ... they will finally have an appetite to pass some real comprehensive immigration reform."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expected to start awarding contracts by late-April after the deadline for proposals was extended to April 4.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/31...-hispanic.html

That looks more like a fence surrounding a schoolyard, not one designed to secure our nation. Glad to see that disgrace of a fence being torn down. Hopefully the one replacing it will be much better.

I like this company and am proud they are working on our wall. Look at that nice machinery! That's going to build a big beautiful wall, not that stupid little fencing you put up in your back yard for your poodle.