Brian Kolfage is a veteran of the United States Air Force and founder of the organization We Build the Wall which has begun construction of a privately funded barrier on the US-Mexico border.
Kolfage is a triple amputee with some articles claiming that he is the most severely wounded US airman in history.
His injuries resulted in the fastest medevac to the United States from a war zone.In December 2018, Kolfage initiated a $1 billion fundraising campaign for U.S.
President Donald Trump's proposed Mexico–United States barrier on GoFundMe under the organizational title of "We Build the Wall, Inc." As of May 2019, the campaign had raised just over $22 million.
Over the 2019 Memorial Day weekend, the organization constructed a 1/2 to 1-mile "weathered steel" bollard fence near El Paso on private land adjoining the US-Mexico border using $6–8 million of the donated funds.
The organization says it has plans to construct further barriers on private lands adjoining the border in Texas and California.