Useful and informative article about privately funded border wall
The Philadelphia Inquirer's daily email newsletter referred me to
this excellent article,
by
Jeremy Schwartz
and
Perla Trevizo.
Wow!” I said. “This is way better than the Inquirer's usual
reporting. I wonder what that means?” Turns out
it meant that the Inquirer was not responsible for the article.
But thanks for the pointer, Inquirer folks!
The article is full of legal, political, and engineering details about
why it's harder to build a border wall than I would have expected. I
learned a lot! I had known about the issue that most of the land is
privately owned. But I hadn't considered that there are international
water-use treaties that come into play if the wall is built too close
to the Rio Grande, or that the wall would be on the river's
floodplain. (Or that the Rio Grande even had a floodplain.)
He built a privately funded border wall. It's already at risk of falling down if not fixed,
courtesy of The Texas Tribune and
ProPublica.
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