A makeshift border wall is about to be torn down between former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey.
Heavy Machine Workers Remove Shipping Containers That Make Up Wall After Biden Administration Lawsuit Against Arizona and Ducie. The complaint alleges that the governor’s erection of makeshift barriers along part of the border was illegal.
In a December lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the Justice Department said, “Officers from the Reclamation and Forest Service have notified the State of Arizona that the State of Arizona is encroaching on federal land.” rice field.
Ali Bradley, NewsNation’s border correspondent, posted a video on Twitter on Tuesday showing heavy machinery lifting shipping containers onto flatbed trucks in Yuma County, about 180 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.
Ducey agreed to begin removing barriers before resigning on January 2. Removal of the barrier is reportedly expected to cost about $75 million.
Jonathan LinesA Republican on the Yuma County Oversight Board told the Daily Signal Tuesday that the Biden administration has agreed to replace the shipping containers with some type of barrier. The timetable for filling remains unknown.
Lines says he is concerned that the Biden administration has seized an opportunity to close the gap in the Yuma County border wall.
“Connex boxes have always been temporary,” Lines said of the shipping container. “People worry about the cost of his Connex box, but he spends millions of dollars every week to contain, process and transport illegal immigrants entering the United States.”
From November 27th to December 3rd Reported by the Yuma Border Patrol Its agents have arrested over 6,400 illegal immigrants from 46 different counties.
Ducey’s removal of the temporary border wall came amid a change of government in Arizona, with Democratic Katie Hobbs reigning as governor.
When Arizona PBS asked Hobbes for her opinion on the makeshift border wall, she said the container was “not effective as a barrier.”
list of hobbiesImmigration and border security” as one of the website’s top priorities. “The most impactful solution to our immigration crisis is for the federal government to finally secure our borders, strengthen our economy, and provide illegal immigrants living in the United States a tough but fair path to citizenship. Pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,” the website said.
Ducey began construction of the first border wall in Yuma County in the summer. He filled in his 3,820 feet of previously open borders. The project reportedly cost about $6 million.
Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told the Daily Signal In December, it was reported that shipping containers were preventing encroachment on farmland and harming crops. The wall has also proven effective in “moving the mass immigration crisis into a more controlled environment for federal investigators to grasp,” Wilmot said.
When Hobbs was asked if the shipping container should be removed, Wilmot said: [the containers] Keep them in place until the federal government replaces them with the right infrastructure to prevent what containers went through before they were deployed. ”
In Cochise County, far southeast of Arizona, the Ducey administration completed more than three miles of a shipping container border wall before environmental protests were brought to bear. Construction stopped.
The removal of the shipping container walls will take place immediately thereafter Supreme Court ruled Temporarily block the Biden administration from terminating Title 42, an urgent health measure that allows Border Patrol to expedite the deportation of illegal immigrants.
But even with Title 42 in force, Border Protection reports that it encountered more than 2 million illegal aliens across the border in fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30. .
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