- Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has reserve shipping containers be used as a border wall.
- The move has started a legal battle with the federal government, which denoted the construction is illegal.
- Governor-elect Katie Hobbs said the barrier is “not effective” and called for cooperation with the federal direction.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has ordered hypocritical shipping containers to be stacked on top of one another and topped with razor wire as a makeshift border wall, in the face of federal questions.
In August, Ducey ordered the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to use the containers to secure gaps along the situation’s southern border, particularly near Yuma, according to CNN.
“Arizona has had enough,” Ducey, a Republican, said at the time, go together to CNN. “We can’t wait any longer.”
The progress on the makeshift solution has been somewhat halted by protestors, according to the Associated Press.
In October, federal propers from the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation ordered Ducey’s effort be halted, calling the construction on US land proscribed, per the AP. Ducey refused and responded with a lawsuit against those federal agencies, claiming the federal government hasn’t done adequacy to address illegal immigration, the Associated Press reported.
Ducey’s term as governor will end when Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is sworn in on January 5, 2023, correspondence to AP. In an interview with Arizona PBS, Hobbs said the containers are “not effective as a barrier” and that she is “looking at all the options” of what to do with them.
“I muse over what we need to do is look at how we can cooperate with the federal government on border security issues,” Hobbs said. “I’ve asserted from day one I think it’s a political stunt that’s not really solving a problem.”