Texas city: Work on Trump's wall and you won't work for us

Work on the wall, don't work here A West Texas city is considering prohibiting any company or vendor who works on the proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico from doing business with the city. El Paso officials will take up the issue Tuesday night. >>>Scroll through the gallery to see images of the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as challenges Donald Trump faces in building a wall between the two countries less Work on the wall, don't work here A West Texas city is considering prohibiting any company or vendor who works on the proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico from doing business with the city. El Paso ... more Photo: Ivan Pierre Aguirre, STR Photo: Ivan Pierre Aguirre, STR Image 1 of / 44 Caption Close Texas city: Work on Trump's wall and you won't work for us 1 / 44 Back to Gallery

For one West Texas city, the proposition may be simple: Take a contract to work on Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico and give up any work with the city.

An El Paso city councilman is pushing the idea of prohibiting the city from awarding any kind of contract to a vendor or company working on the proposed wall. The issue will come up Tuesday during a regular meeting of the council.

Representative Peter Svarzbein said the idea is to foster a larger conversation about the wall. The Trump administration has already selected El Paso, which is close enough to the border that the Mexican city of Juarez can be seen, as one of the starting points for construction.

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And, Svarzbein may have some backing in the community.

"Somebody needs to do something in whatever way they can to take a stand on a lot of things that are going on," El Paso resident Jean-Andre Moore told KBDC-TV in El Paso.

Given that Trump promised repeatedly that Mexico will pay for the wall, in some ways this issue may be moot.

But for now, at least, El Paso officials are making their feelings known.

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