If you build it, they will fund?

San Antonio’s Express News contains an interesting story by Jeorge Zarazua about Hale-Mills Construction’s full-steam-ahead approach to building an immigration detention center in Willacy County, Texas.

“Willacy County officials haven’t formally decided who will get to build the state’s largest immigration detention facility — but that hasn’t stopped a Houston company from beginning work on the massive project.

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Without a county decision on how to pay for it or, more importantly, who would be hired to build it, Hale-Mills began clearing a cotton field in Raymondville the next day.

The company has been working on the project every day since, Sheriff Larry G. Spence said.”

More here.  Apparently, it has not been lost on Hale-Mill that there is money to be made in the current, directionless frenzy over border “security.”

-jmc