PRIVATE BORDER WALL HIT WITH CEASE AND DESIST FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT
8:34 PM 05/28/2019 | USAndrew Kerr | Investigative Reporter
The half-mile private border wall that sprung up over Memorial Day weekend was hit with a cease and desist order Tuesday for being built in violation of a Sunland Park, New Mexico, city ordinance.
The wall, built near El Paso, Texas, by a nonprofit organization funded by triple-amputee Airforce veteran Brian Kolfage’s viral $20 million GoFundMe fundraising campaign, didn’t obtain a building permit prior to breaking ground, Sunland Park city officials told KTSM.
“We have issued a cease and desist to the owner of the property,” Sunland Park Democratic Mayor Javier Perea said at a press conference Tuesday. “At this point, it will be turned over to the courts for follow up in the matter.”
Kolfage claimed on Twitter that his organization, We Build The Wall, was given the “green light to build,” and said the city’s cease and desist was “bullshit.”
“Keep donating,” Kolfage added.
But former White House strategist and We Build The Wall director Steve Bannon told Yahoo News on Monday that his group hastily “purchased the rights” to construct a wall on the private land. (RELATED: Construction On The First-Ever Private Border Wall Begins)
“We had to catch them by surprise,” Bannon said, adding that local residents are “gonna freak out” when they see the hastily constructed wall.
Perea said the owner of the private property housing Kolfage’s wall submitted an “incomplete” application for the wall on Friday, then began construction shortly after.
“There was no survey submitted with the plans at this point; there’s no site plan developed or turned into the city of Sunland Park,” Perea said. “Also, city ordinance only allows a wall up to six feet tall, and this far exceeds that.”
https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-con...ll-El-Paso.jpgEL PASO, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 10: The U.S./ Mexican border wall is seen on February 10, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the border city as he continues to campaign for a wall to be built along the border and the Democrats in Congress are asking for other border security measures. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The mayor said the typical permitting process takes about two months.
“Just submitting an application one day and expecting a result on the next is not sufficient time,” he said.
Perea said city officials were denied access to the work site after learning Thursday that the private wall would be constructed.
It’s unclear whether the city has the authority to tear down the private wall.
“I would have to consult with my staff and attorneys as to what further actions can be done at this point,” Perea said.
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HOPE THESE GUYS DIDN'T SCREW THIS THING UP????? There is absolutely NO WAY I could believe these guys, along with this contractor would do what they did when the city ordinance did not allow any fences over 6 feet. NO WAY NO HOW could these guys be that stupid and furthermore, the city knew what these people were going to do and they would have had the cops out there to stop them if this was the case. That 6 feet city ordinance argument against this fence is INSULTING. Can't be the case. The 1st. thing anybody would have looked into are the city ordinances and that would have happened weeks and weeks ago.