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Biden Admin Demands Arizona Removes Make-Shift Barrier From U.S. Border Wall Gaps

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The Biden Administration, instead of applauding Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), for filling in the gaps along the U.S. – Mexico border, was accused this week of trespassing on federal lands.

Ducey announced last week that he would have crews install shipping containers along a section of the border to fill gaps not covered by a wall. The announcement came two weeks after federal officials ordered him to take down containers he had placed in the southwestern part of the state.

According to Fox News, the Republican governor then sued and requested the courts allow Arizona to keep 100 shipping containers, double stacked with barbed wire on top, in place near Yuma. Yuma is in the state’s southwest corner, in the Sonoran Desert.

The containers were put in place in August to fill gaps in the border, which Ducey said was pushing back against “the inaction of the Biden Administration in stopping migrants from entering the state from Mexico,” according to the Associated Press.

Ducey on Wednesday tweeted, “Arizonans cannot — and will not — wait for federal bureaucrats to do their job and secure the border.”

Ducey’s plan is to cover a 10-mile section of the border using more than 2,700 containers, each 60 feet long.

But the Biden Administration continues to demand Ducey remove the barriers, with claims that the state is trespassing on federal lands.

In order to put a stop to Biden’s raging border crisis, which has been responsible for more than 4.9 million illegal immigrants invading the United States in just the last 2 years, Ducey’s plan is to cover a 10-mile section of the border using more than 2,700 containers, each 60-feet long.

But the Biden administration, for unknown reasons, continues to get in the way of Governor Ducey’s attempt to secure the border and his state by demanding Ducey remove the barriers, claiming the state is trespassing on federal lands.

“The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States,” Jacklynn Gould, regional director for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Basin said in a letter to Arizona. “That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding Reclamation’s ability to perform its mission.”

Gould’s department falls under the Department of Interior, and in her letter, she stated a contract was awarded by the Department of Homeland Security to close gaps near Morelos Dam.

Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, also a Republican, hit back at Gould highlighting the hypocrisy in her comments, “They say this is federal land, and it is, but it would be trespassing supposedly to put these containers on there. Well, my contention is that 300,000 people that have come through this year alone, they’ve been trespassing, and I don’t remember seeing a letter going out to anybody to try to stop any of that.”

Fox News reported that since the project began in August, 130 shipping containers were stacked within 11 days, allowing the state to fill 3,900 feet of open border.

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