Here's the governor of Arizona having a go. At least someone's trying, no? Suck on that, leftards.
US governor to remove makeshift border wall criticised as ‘stunt’
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has reached an agreement to remove shipping containers stacked as a wall from federal lands.
The governor of the US state of Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico, has agreed to remove shipping containers erected as a makeshift barrier on the border in defiance of the federal government.
According to court documents filed on Wednesday, Arizona’s Republican Governor Doug Ducey has entered into an agreement with the Biden administration to remove the containers from federal lands, including national forests.
In a lawsuit filed by the federal government last week, the Department of Justice described the barrier as “hundreds of double-stacked multi-ton shipping containers that damage federal lands, threaten public safety, and impede the ability of federal agencies and officials, including law enforcement personnel, to perform their official duties”.
Ducey has countered that the containers were a temporary measure meant to pressure the federal government to construct a permanent wall on the southern border.
Wednesday’s agreement to remove the containers comes as the United States contends with a record number of border crossings from undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers.
US governor to remove makeshift border wall criticised as ‘stunt’
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has reached an agreement to remove shipping containers stacked as a wall from federal lands.
According to court documents filed on Wednesday, Arizona’s Republican Governor Doug Ducey has entered into an agreement with the Biden administration to remove the containers from federal lands, including national forests.
In a lawsuit filed by the federal government last week, the Department of Justice described the barrier as “hundreds of double-stacked multi-ton shipping containers that damage federal lands, threaten public safety, and impede the ability of federal agencies and officials, including law enforcement personnel, to perform their official duties”.
For its 2022 fiscal year, US Customs and Border Protection documented 2.76 million “enforcement actions” taken to turn away migrants, up from approximately 1.96 million the previous year.
Ducey has decried what he calls “inaction” on the part of the Biden administration in handling the influx of migrants. An October news release from the governor’s office described the shipping-container wall, as well as similar measures, as an exercise of “the state’s right to defend itself”.
But the plan to spend $95m to place 3,000 shipping containers on the border met criticism from conservation and immigrant rights groups. They argue that the makeshift wall is not only ineffective but that it also damages sensitive ecosystems.
December, the Center for Biological Diversity released a news statement saying that the containers were a “shameful political stunt” that would impede stream flow and threaten numerous species. The makeshift wall blocked critical wildlife corridors for endangered jaguars and ocelots, the centre argued.
Ducey is set to leave office in January, after serving the state maximum of two terms in the governor’s office. His successor, Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, has said that she opposed the construction.
A Republican governor spends 95 mil to stick it to the leftards. He goes out, buys shipping containers, and plonks them in a national park. Anyone can climb over them - apart from the local wildlife.
Doug now has to spend another hundred mil getting rid of it. Money for jam, no? Who wouldn't want to be the governor of Arizona? Playing tricks, having a bit of a laugh, sh
The leftards get in.
Typical. Totally rigged, of course. Now it's back to playing by the rules, obeying the leftards' silly national Park rules and acting all chummy with the feds.
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