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cbabe

(4,178 posts)
Sun Dec 11, 2022, 12:49 PM Dec 2022

Gov. Hobbs: tear down this wall

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/11/arizona-governor-border-wall-shipping-containers

Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office
Shipping containers form the border wall on the frontier with Mexico in Cochise county, Arizona.

Critics say Republican Doug Ducey’s scheme is illegal because makeshift barrier is being erected on tribal and federal land

Melissa del Bosque in Tucson
Sun 11 Dec 2022 06.00 EST

A makeshift new barrier built with shipping containers is being illegally erected along part of the US-Mexico border by Arizona’s Republican governor – before he has to hand over the keys of his office to his Democratic successor in January.

Doug Ducey is driving a project that is placing double-stacked old shipping containers through several miles of national forest, attempting to fill gaps in Donald Trump’s intermittent border fencing.

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Gov. Hobbs: tear down this wall (Original Post) cbabe Dec 2022 OP
This wall of containers is costing AZ taxpayers millions aax Dec 2022 #1

aax

(57 posts)
1. This wall of containers is costing AZ taxpayers millions
Sat Dec 17, 2022, 04:25 PM
Dec 2022

and it won't stop a single migrant from crossing the border.

Hopefully the Feds will just remove it.

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