This is a recipe for some idiot getting shot at by some other idiot. The do-it-yourself border wall stunt masterminded by pro-Trump grifters and backed by his toadies Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach is becoming a magnet for gun-packing vigilantes and militia. Oh, and it's being constructed by the firm Trump has been "personally and repeatedly" intervening on behalf of, trying to get it awarded the contract for building the government-funded wall he is demanding.
We Build the Wall was the brainchild of Florida man Brian Kolfage, who started a GoFundMe campaign in December. He’s "a decorated Air Force veteran who had operated conspiratorially minded right-wing websites that were banned from Facebook." He was going to give the money raised for the wall to the Treasury, but that isn't a thing so he started a nonprofit (cough) along with "Blackwater founder Erik Prince, former Colorado GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo and retired major league pitcher Curt Schilling, now a right-wing radio personality." Because of course that crew joined in. With Prince involved, you know it's not going to be a nonprofit for everyone involved. On Memorial Day the group announced on Fox & Friends (where else) that it had started construction. That immediately brought a cease-and-desist order from the mayor, because the group hadn't bothered with getting permits for construction. That issue was resolved by the end of the day Wednesday.
There was an "official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday," if you can call anything associated with this official, that brought journalists and the crazies to the site in New Mexico. Visitors were greeted by "two amateur sentries in neon safety vests" who radioed ahead to "someone called Viper, telling him to 'stand down,'" which suggests someone in this set-up is armed. Other visitors to the site, the same private land where members of a militia group calling itself the United Constitutional Patriots were detaining migrants, are definitely armed. We Build the Wall, which is what this stunt group calls themselves, says they're not aligned with the militias, but "has shared footage shot by the group online, and people associated with the group continue to make appearances at the site of the private wall project, despite intense scrutiny of the militia's activities."
Meanwhile, "[f]urther blurring the lines between government and private efforts, Border Patrol vehicles constantly whizzed around the property." This lady, too: "Susan Moore, 56, a retired EMS worker, strode around the site with a .45 revolver strapped to her hip, collecting signatures for two petitions, one advocating a border wall and another opposing a New Mexico state measure to impose stricter background checks on gun purchases." She said she is a member of New Mexico Patriots, and was there for the "networking"—fully armed and loaded networking, that is.