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County commissioners will meet Thursday to consider having Barnard Construction donate construction work on a remote dirt road that could be used to facilitate the Trump administration’s border wall plans in the region. -
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Jeff Davis County Judge Curtis Evans says he “shut down” a construction crew that was working as a subcontractor for Barnard Construction on improving a rugged dirt road that leads to the Rio Grande. Barnard is the Montana firm that was recently awarded nearly $2 billion to build border walls in the Big Bend region.
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