For Star subscribers: The Biden administration asks judge to let it remove shipping containers Gov. Doug Ducey has had placed along the Arizona-Mexico border, and to bill Arizona for the costs.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services The Biden administration is asking a federal judge to let it remove the hundreds of double-stacked storage containers Gov. Doug Ducey has had placed along the border with Mexico, and then to bill Arizona for the costs.
People are also reading… That's not only dangerous, he wrote, but also"inconsistent" with President Theodore Roosevelt's decision in 1907 — before Arizona even became a state — to declare a 60-foot wide strip along the border the property of the federal government to keep the area"free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico.
Smith also said the containers are blocking about 30 ephemeral streams, which interrupts natural drainage patters, erodes soil and damages vegetation and forage. "When the federal government abruptly halted border wall construction, our forests and public lands in Arizona quickly became strewn with abandoned clothing and property, and an ever-increasing number of migrants who continue to flow into the state,'' Ducey wrote."This influx has resulted in fields of agricultural produce being contaminated, hospitals overflowing and U.S. citizens not being able to enjoy their homes or property due to trespassers.
In fact, he noted, construction has been halted. He did not say in his letter, however, that was not by choice of state officials, but because protesters have put themselves in the path of the wall, blocking the construction equipment.
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