A federal agency says Arizona's shipping container border wall is illegal. Arizona officials say they can't rely on the feds.
Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas previously signed off on closing four gaps to prevent migrants from drowning as they attempted to cross the Colorado River.
But Ducey said the state couldn't wait for the Biden administration to take action. Nearly two weeks after signing the executive order, Duceystate had used 130 shipping containers to complete 3,820 feet of the border barrier. A news release from Ducey citied U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures showing the number of migrants encountered by agents had soared by 230 percent within a year.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey speaks at a rally for then-President Donald Trump at the International Air Response facility on October 19, 2018, in Mesa, Arizona. Ducey has defended his administration's use of shipping containers to fill in segments of a border wall.Jacklynn Gould, regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation, said in a letter sent last week to Arizona state officials that the shipping container wall is illegal and amounted to trespassing on federal property.
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