By Joe Ferguson | Arizona Daily Star
Tucson-based West Point Contractors says the city is wrong to include the company on a list of firms it won’t invest in over ties to President Trump’s effort to build a border wall.
Tucson-based West Point Contractors says the city is wrong to include the company on a list of firms it won’t invest in over ties to President Trump’s effort to build a border wall.
A three-page letter signed by John Alley, the company’s vice president, notes that if staff had reached out they would have learned that the border fence project the company is working on in El Paso was approved during the Obama administration.
“The City Council has mistakenly assumed that West Point is building Trump’s border wall,” the letter states. “The fact is, the specific Border Fence Replacement projects West Point provided proposals to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were forecasted in 2015 and out for solicitation in 2016, prior to the inauguration of Mr. Trump.
