A private border wall construction project lauded by Trumpers nationwide is actually partially on Mexican soil, Mexican government engineers alleged in photos their American counterparts shared with the builders this month.
“The IBWC regularly handles issues of binational importance, most notably water that flows across the border, and the 130-year-old body could hold firm in its beef withthe GoFundMe wall builders, even if the group counts former White House adviser Steve Bannon as an adviser and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as general counsel.”
Well, the wall builders will certainly have no problem winning a legal challenge from Mexico.
“That’s a problem for the Mexican government, and for the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), established in 1889 with one commissioner from each country. (The current U.S. commissioner is a Trump appointee.)”
Looks like IBWC might be getting a new commissioner from the U.S. if it doesn’t cave on this misappropriation of Mexican land.
Good civics lesson for these people, not to mention an engineering lesson. Surely they had surveying done by a licensed surveyor, and the wall was designed by a licensed professional engineer. We are a nation of laws.
There’s no reason for these grifters to waste money on something legitimate like proper engineering. Having a rackety dispute with the Mexican authorities and maybe seeing that bit destroyed is far more griftily profitable and useful to their purposes.
“We have some of the most beautiful tanks on the way to bring order to the not very smart Mexican rocks—and by the way I hear some of them are rapists.”