![Group Vowing to Build Border Wall Puts Up New Mexico Segment](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/Private-Border-Wall-Construction-in-Sunderland-New-Mexico.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Group Vowing to Build Border Wall Puts Up New Mexico Segment
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — A leader with the group that's been raising funds to build a southern border wall on its own says they erected less than a mile of wall on private land in New Mexico over Memorial Day weekend.
Dustin Stockton, co-founder of the nonprofit WeBuildtheWall Inc., told The Associated Press Monday that they spent about 10 days moving dirt before starting construction Friday. He says the wall segment in Sunland Park is "mostly up" and should be completed by the end of the week.
Stockton, whose group has raised about $22 million , says they don't have a final tally yet on the cost, but he expects it'll be somewhere between $6 million and $10 million. He says the site's steep incline added to the cost.
The government's cost for the new walls its building is about $22 million a mile.
More From KTEM-AM
![Texas’ Election Chief Resigns After Voter Citizenship Flub](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2013/05/Texas-Capitol-Building-In-Austin-David-Sucsy-Getty-Images.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Congressman John Carter to Host Town Hall Meeting in Temple Tuesday, May 28](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/Congressman-John-Carter.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![American Heroes Week Begins Today at Schlitterbahn](http://townsquare.media/site/514/files/2018/05/Schlitterbahn.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Texas Senate Approves Post-Disaster Open Carry Bill](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/Handgun.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Police Officer Finds Snake in Walmart Shopping Cart](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/Northeast-Texas-Police-Officer-Finds-Snake-in-Walmart-Shopping-Cart-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Texas’ Embattled Elections Chief on Brink of Losing Job](http://townsquare.media/site/514/files/2013/11/vote-e1383652759179.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![North Korea Calls Bolton ‘War Monger’ Over Missile Comment](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/GettyImages-1146288208.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Trump Breaks With Abe, Says Not Bothered by NK Missile Tests](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/GettyImages-1151956018.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Amber Alert Issued for Fermin Fuentes, Believed to Be in Danger](http://townsquare.media/site/516/files/2019/05/Fermin-Fuentes.jpg?w=980&q=75)