The latest container news on the Arizona-Mexico border comes as Katie Hobbs becomes governor
Phoenix – In his last act in office, former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey started it He removed the containers he had started assembling a few months earlier. Arizona-Mexico border.
The project was expected to cost taxpayers approximately $120 million to install and would have required 3,000 shipping containers to be placed in the border wall spaces, a project that would have cost $120 million to install.
The Justice Department gave Duce a January 4, 2023 deadline to remove the containers, and the removal project is expected to cost about $75 million.
Effective January 2, Ducey has passed the baton to Governor Katie Hobbs and is tasked with protecting Arizona’s southern border.
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In the last hours of the Duce’s work, the removal of containers from the cracks in the border wall in Yuma county began.
The The federal government sued Ducey and the state of Arizona Also on December 14, he asked to repair the containers. The Duce replied in a letter that sea containers are always a temporary solution due to the inertia of federal border security.
Yuma Mayor Douglas Nichols told Fox 10 in September that the containers work not to stop people from crossing, but to divert them to ports.
“Sea containers work. They cover the gaps. They cover very active areas,” she said.
However, Tony Reiss, chairman of the Yuma County Board of Supervisors, who a few weeks ago issued a state of emergency in Yuma due to increased migration, did not call the dumpsters a political stunt.
“If you talk about the efficiency of containers, they obviously don’t work. More people are crossing after those containers than before. They’re going through other places,” Reyes said.
The office of Hobbs, the 24th governor of Arizona, issued a statement on the matter, saying, “Governor Hobbs has always said these shipping containers are an expensive political stunt that does nothing to address the real issues at the border.”
The rebuild should take at least a week.
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According to the document, an agreement between the US government and Doug Ducey, when he was governor of Arizona, was to stop construction of border crossings in the Coronado National Forest.
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The lawsuit, filed in US District Court, comes three weeks before Democratic governor-elect Katie Hobbs ousted the Republican governor, who she says opposes the construction.
