Video footage taken Monday morning showed the demolition of a container wall on the southern Arizona border has begun.
“Removing these containers will allow people to walk straight across,” Yuma County Superintendent Jonathan Lines told Fox News before the removals began. , added to an already full plate.”
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government at the time. Doug Ducey built a container wall near Yuma during the summer months to curb the surge in migration. he agreed to get rid of it After facing legal challenges from the Biden administration.
“My biggest fear is that cartels and individuals around the world see this as an incentive to bring down our borders,” Lines said. He also worries that “human and drug trafficking will escalate and destabilize the area to dangerous levels for Yuma’s citizens.”
Biden’s failed border policy forced Arizona to build a container wall, Yuma official says
Local ABC Affiliates Capture picture of removal Monday morning.
The Ducey administration began plugging gaps in the border wall with shipping containers in August — a necessary step to mitigate President Biden’s failed policies, Lines previously told Fox News. legal battle The federal government followed suit, and in December a Republican governor agreed to remove the barrier by January 4th.
Lines that reflect what Yuma was like before the container walls were built.
“We were bringing drugs into the area and there was trafficking,” he told Fox News. “And there were a lot of people camping.”
Nearly one million migrants have crossed the southern Arizona border since Mr. Biden took office, according to Customs and Border Protection. In the Yuma sector, he saw a 171% increase in immigration transit between 2021 and 2022.
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Without container walls, Lines believes local farmers “will be forced to hire security guards again.”
In a previous interview, a Yuma official said the family had hired armed guards After immigrants repeatedly came to the house. Additionally, according to Lines, thousands of migrants crossing farmlands are damaging crops in heavily agricultural cities.
“For food security, we have to keep people out of agricultural production areas,” Lines told Fox News.
