The Biden Administration has charged Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey with trespassing as the Republican governor works to patch holes along the U.S.-Mexico border with shipping containers.
Last week, Ducey announced that he would have workers erect shipping containers along a stretch of the border to close any gaps left by the absence of a wall. The declaration came two weeks after he was told to remove containers he had erected in the state's southwest by federal authorities.
The containers were erected in August to close border gaps, which Ducey claimed was a response to "the inaction of the Biden Administration in stopping migrants from entering the state from Mexico." 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.
The Biden Administration continues to demand Ducey remove the barriers, with claims that 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."
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