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Here we go!! Liberals trying to intimidate us! SOUND THE ALARM. The governor trying to flex, city of Sunland park said we had no permits trying to shut us down- BULLSHIT! They were on site on Friday and gave us green light to build! @RyanAFournier @DRUDGE @Rambobiggs @MarkDice pic.twitter.com/C1L90Z0Lsa — Brian Kolfage (@BrianKolfage) May 28, 2019

Kolfage seeks to fill gaps along the “porous” southern border, which he says leaves the United States “vulnerable to attack.” When GoFundMe offered refunds in January after Kolfage fell short of his $1 billion USD goal, he channeled the money to a nonprofit that aims to construct wall segments on private property.

Photos and videos of construction on the barrier, plastered to social media Monday by We Build The Wall Inc., seem to have appeased those who doubted whether the project was actually happening. The group now claims it is close to completing a half-mile stretch of wall in Sunland Park, New Mexico, and last week, The Washington Post observed employees from North Dakota-based construction company Fisher Industries prepping a work site near the location. In recent months, President Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to give a border wall contact to the same firm, The Post reported.

“They said it was impossible, we proved them wrong,” We Build The Wall wrote on Facebook. “This new wall is the first of more to come, and we couldn’t of [sic] done it without your gracious donations.”

Kolfage bragged in a Tuesday afternoon post that the wall segment — built on a stretch of land that is privately owned by a brick company — had already proven effective in deterring migrants. He professed without evidence that the area was a popular “smuggling route for the cartels” that attracted thousands of migrants per day.