The Guardian reports, in "Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office."
If it's federal land, maintained by the federal government, why doesn't the federal government stop this ramshackle building project? Is this just another side of the federal government's inability/unwillingness to control the border?
It turns out, there is a lawsuit:
In October, Ducey filed a lawsuit in which he claimed that the federal land along the border known as the Roosevelt Reservation actually belongs to the state, not the US government, and that Arizona has the constitutional right to protect itself against what he termed an invasion, citing “countless migrants” resulting in “a mix of drug, crime and humanitarian issues”...
Dinah Bear, an attorney and former general counsel for the council on environmental quality within the executive office of the White House said, “There’s just no question that this is federal property.... there’s no legal difference between the land they’re putting the shipping containers on and Grand Canyon national park.”
Then why don't they physically stop the project? All they are doing is waiting for the case to proceed in court and waiting for the new governor, Democrat Katie Hobbs, to take office, on January 2d. Will she tear down this wall?
Meanwhile, the sheriff of Santa Cruz county said that "if anyone tries to put the containers in his jurisdiction they will be arrested for illegal dumping."
It's quite ugly:
ICYMI: New this week in The Border Chronicle🦂🔥 Yes, Gov. Ducey’s Illegal Shipping Container Wall is Worse Than You Can Imagine... https://t.co/IorwwR4KwN
— Melissa del Bosque (@MelissaLaLinea) December 9, 2022
Local border residents are looking for more people to come down and block the construction. Ducey's plan is to build 10 miles of this before incoming Gov. Hobbs takes office. Then AZ is stuck with this $100 million dollar junkyard fence. I mean, seriously, look at this 👇 pic.twitter.com/EumDleomIr
— Melissa del Bosque (@MelissaLaLinea) November 30, 2022
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It's quite ugly:
Ditto young people dying from fentanyl.
Ducey should have commissioned this as an artwork inspired by Christo. Not only would the lawsuits evaporate, he could sell postcards and autographed posters.
"National Forest" makes it seem as if southern Arizona is full of trees rather than miles and miles of deserts. Well, look at those photos or take your next vacation in the Tucson area and see for yourself. It's the same as a National Park, well yeah. The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is on the Arizona-Mexico border and has a very long highway on the Mexican side. It was a major smuggling route for decades (see below -- Ranger was shot and killed in 2002). Visiting tourists have long been strongly warned about potential border issues. This National Monument also has no trees, just lots of cactus on former cattle grazing land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_Pipe_Cactus_National_Monument
I guess Biden - Lake may be pushing the environmental angle hoping that vigilante farmer "militias" return and make martyrs of the immigrants. The most obvious logic is to lay groundwork for further state control ("The Lives of Others"), or a pretext for attacks on anti-Biden citizens and politicians.
To forecast the future, review the late days of the Roman Empire...
Someone from the federal government would actually have to go to the border to remove it. We know that doesn’t happen.
Why do we even have laws when our Federal Government refuse to enforce the ones on the books??
Democrats want free passage for the Fentanyl mules. Jaguars and ocelots are an afterthought.
Big Mike is right. Melissa is worried and complaining about aesthetics and people are dying because of drugs.
The remedy is mandamus. I’m the Nebraska expert on it.
Eh, the colors of the shipping containers blends well with desert colors. Looks pretty Sedona Red to me.
No worries. Katie Hobbs will get right on it, removing the storage cars and any bits of the actual wall while she's at it. I simply cannot believe the people of AZ voted this person in as Governor. But then, I'm the one who still doesn't believe 81 million people voted for that Sack O'Potatoes we've got as President.
Temujin,
There are a lot of really stupid voters in these not-so-united states.
"This will cost $100 million, keep nobody out & forever harm endangered ocelots, jaguars and other species"
It's a magical wall: Not capable of stopping any Human from passage, but will utterly stop the passage of the considerably smaller and agile ocelots!
If you think of the wall as art, it's quite picturesque.
We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
All the "horrible" pictures are just close-up shots of a few containers. If this is some remote location and you can't see it from anywhere then how it is worse than a train moving across the plains?
Those aren't a wall, they are free housing for the immigrant community. Or at least for the any of them with a SawzAll to cut windows and doors.
I saw this in Algadones last week. He’s gotta ‘em stacked right next to the wall. When you drive west on I-8 there appears to be nothing.
My teeth are a revelation to me. I’m now a good lookin old long hair type. People think I’m a peace and love hippie out here. Heh, I’ll show them.
SteveWe said...
"There are a lot of really stupid voters in these not-so-united states."
While Joe Biden and Katie Hobbs are probably two of the stupidest people in public life in this country, those who vote for them are not necessarily stupid. They will get what they want from their chosen candidate, which is all that matters. There aren't very many people who think Joe Biden is actually "The President," but those who voted for him are happy with the situation.
Temujin said...
"I simply cannot believe the people of AZ voted this person in as Governor."
They didn't, really. They voted for whoever is pulling Katie's strings, one of which (unfortunately) is George Soros.
The Biden feds don't give a rat's ass about the forest. The purpose of any such lawsuit is to restore unfettered entry to the country for people shuttled by the cartels.
Big money!
"BREAKING: A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen. The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets."
Video here:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1602301863822491650
Sadly, the Soros creature, Hobbs, will start dismantling this attempt to stop the invasion as soon as she takes office.
Temujin said...
I simply cannot believe the people of AZ voted this person in as Governor.
Some people did, but there's no way of knowing who got the most actual votes because the voting system is so corrupt and incompetent.
Seems like a Christo thing to force Federal action. Pretty smart.
Should have built the "big, beautiful border wall" instead.
Jaguar and Ocelot sightings are quite rare in Arizona. The ones who have been spotted have been male. LGBTQ?
Ugly containers vs raped women and children, drugs, failing school districts, and overcrowded hospitals.
I'll take the shipping containers...
"It's quite ugly:"
Ditto young people dying from fentanyl.
And girls raped, and the "burden" of evidence aborted, perhaps cannibalized, then sequestered [in a sanctuary state], at both ends of the bridge and at the border, while emigration reform is pushed to the back of the bus in favor of immigration reform with "benefits".
"It's quite ugly:"
Ditto young people dying from fentanyl.
And girls raped, and the "burden" of evidence aborted, perhaps cannibalized, then sequestered [in a sanctuary state], at both ends of the bridge and at the border, while emigration reform is pushed to the back of the bus in favor of immigration reform with "benefits".
Looks like a wall with a bunch of gaps and holes in it.
Now on the other hand if the Arizona National Guard is sitting on top of it with guns I think it could work.
Ducey's container wall isn't "illegal" it's just undocumented.
Ducey's container wall isn't "illegal," its just undocumented.
Sex trafficked children is uglier.
... and the governor has announced plans to extend that up to 10 miles ...
The Pima County public library tells us that the Arizona-Mexico border is 370 miles long. That's a lot of containers.
Pima County Public Library
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