New Mexico: Builders of private border ordered to keep the gate open
The builders of a private border wall in New Mexico have been ordered by an international agency to keep a gate permanently open. According to a report in Buzzfeed, the half-mile wall near Sunland Park cut off official access to a levee and a dam and public access to Monument One, a series of obelisks marking the U.S.-Mexico border.
The We Build the Wall barrier also featured a gate built on about 33 feet of federal property without proper advance permission.
“This is normally done well in advance of a construction project,” said Lori Kuczmanski, “They think they can build now and ask questions later, and that’s not how it works.” Commission officials propped open that gate in response earlier this week, to preserve public access and, by extension, making the wall easy to breach.
“We’re going to lock it in an open position until we come into a mutual decision on how this gate is going to operate,” Ms. Kuczmanski said.