Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey.
Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs said last week she was "looking at all the options" and hasn’t decided what to do about the containers after her Jan. 5. inauguration. She previously suggested the containers be repurposed as affordable housing, an increasingly popular option for homeless and low-income people.
"Arizona is going to do the job that Joe Biden refuses to do — secure the border in any way we can." Ducey said whenLawsuit filed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey over shipping containers at border wall Ducey’s move comes amid a record flow of migrants arriving at the border. U.S. border officials have stopped migrantsin the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up 37% from the year before. The annual total surpassed 2 million for the first time in August and is more than twice the highest level during Trump’s presidency, in 2019.
Still, yawning gaps remain in the new container wall, including an open space of several hundred yards on terrain far too steep to place the containers. In some low-lying wash areas there are gaps nearly three feet wide. The Center for Biological Diversity has sided with the federal government’s position that the construction violates U.S. law.
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