A North Dakota construction company favored by Trump has received the largest contract to date to build a section of his signature border wall. The $1.3-billion contract works out to about $30 million per mile.
Choung Woong Ahn’s family said he should be released because of his age and health issues. ICE disagreed. In the 2018 election cycle, company owner Tommy Fisher and his wife donated $10,800 to Cramer, who championed the company’s ability to build the wall and made Fisher his guest at Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address.
Democratic members of Congress raised concerns in December after Fisher was awarded a $400- million contract for border wall construction. Within two weeks, the defense department’s inspector general had launched an investigation, which is ongoing, according to Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, a critic who questioned whether the contract had been properly awarded.“If the administration cared about anything besides political optics and maximizing miles of fence in the run-up to an election, they wouldn’t have awarded this contract,” Thompson said in a statement Wednesday. Environmentalists have also long criticized the border wall, saying it cuts off protected wildlife and destroys important ecosystems. They’ve filed lawsuits against the wall and the use of defense money to build it. “Trump’s wanton destruction of the borderlands is made even worse by this sleazy contract with a big supporter,” said Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.Advertisement “It will be a cold day in hell when I apologize for advocating for a North Dakota business,” Cramer said.
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