ProPublica wrote about a private contractor who wanted to help “build the Wall.” He won a federal contract for $1.7 billion and quickly erected three miles of Trump’s Wall. Problem is that it’s now at risk of falling into the Rio Grande River.
Working in collaboration with the Texas Tribune, ProPublica wrote:
Tommy Fisher billed his new privately funded border wall as the future of deterrence, a quick-to-build steel fortress that spans 3 miles in one of the busiest Border Patrol sectors.
Unlike a generation of wall builders before him, he said he figured out how to build a structure directly on the banks of the Rio Grande, a risky but potentially game-changing step when it came to the nation’s border wall system.
Fisher has leveraged his self-described “Lamborghini” of walls to win more than $1.7 billion worth of federal contracts in Arizona.
But his showcase piece is showing signs of runoff erosion and, if it’s not fixed, could be in danger of falling into the Rio Grande, according to engineers and hydrologists who reviewed photos of the wall for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. It never should have been built so close to the river, they say
Diane Ravitch's blog 
STUPID… Rio Grande River.
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 9:01 AM Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: “ProPublica wrote about a private contractor who > wanted to help “build the Wall.” He won a federal contract for $1.7 billion > and quickly erected three miles of Trump’s Wall. Problem is that it’s now > at risk of falling into the Rio Grande River. Working” > Respond to this post by replying above this line > New post on *Diane Ravitch’s blog* > ProPublica: Contractor Wins > Federal $$ to Build the Wall, Which May Fall into the River > by > dianeravitch > > ProPublica wrote about a private contractor > who wanted to help “build > the Wall.” He won a federal contract for $1.7 billion and quickly erected > three miles of Trump’s Wall. Problem is that it’s now at risk of falling > into the Rio Grande River. > > Working
Here is one problem with the Trump administration: “He won a federal contract for $1.7 billion and quickly erected three miles of Trump’s Wall.”
There is federal money for a worthless ego wall that most likely will fall over but nothing for Medicare for All, money for opening up public schools safely, PPP equipment for all medical workers and masks for every citizen…to be replenished whenever necessary.
I hope the wall falls into the river. It would be a metaphor of what should happen to the Trump administration and all the GOP’ers in Congress who don’t have the backbone to stand up for anything that is right.
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“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
—-Donald Trump
CREDIT: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Well stated! The perfect metaphor for this embarrassing, disastrous administration!
I read about this guy and his wall in National Geographic Magazine. It seems he builds his walls without permits, without permission anywhere he wants to and if anyone gets in his way he uses one of Trump’s tricks to stir up the Alt-Right, hate-filled faithful to threaten his adversaries with death and destruction if they don’t get out of the way and let him build his walls that are not to code and built-in areas that are not stable.
The white supremacist behind these flimsy walls claims anyone that gets in his way supports trafficking children into the United States so they can be forced into sexual slavery.
Samantha Bee recently did interviews with U.S. homeowners on the border. Their land was being confiscated. One wall was being built on the mud banks of the river, and a second wall was being built through their properties, ceding land to Mexico. Take that and the fact that groups in Mexico are trying to slow traffic to keep people out of their country from the U.S., with our disastrous pandemic response, and maybe Mexico has some good reasons to pay for the wall after all. They could even build a Statue of Repartee: Give us your land and keep your tired, your poor, your infectious masses yearning to be free… Or call it the Statue of Irony.
This money should not go to churches. It angers me that the PPP was misused so often.
This comes from the Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Catholic parishes got as much as $63 million in federal PPP coronavirus money
FRIDAY, JUL 1O
Roman Catholic parishes and organizations in the Archdiocese of Chicago received between $24.4 million and $63.6 million in loans through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program that was designed to save jobs amid the economic shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal records.