OXON HILL, Md. — Prominent Kansas Republican Kris Kobach is fronting a new group that aims to harness private money and agreeable landowners to aid President Trump’s effort to build a wall along the Mexican border.

Kobach, 52, is strongly considering a 2020 bid to succeed retiring Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., a move the veteran immigration hawk conceded is more likely now that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former Kansas congressman, has declined to run.

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