The state of Arizona has begun placing shipping containers along another stretch of the US-Mexico border to plug gaps not covered by the border wall.
Republican Governor Doug Ducey announced Monday the installation of stacked containers in Cochise County, in the southeast of the state. Two weeks ago, federal authorities had asked Ducey to remove the containers he had placed in the southwestern border section of the state.
Ducey filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday, asking that the state be allowed to keep the more than 100 shipping containers stacked two by two and covered on top with barbed wire in the vicinity of the Yuma community, which is located near the California border. The lawsuit also cites US Forest Service land where the new containers are being installed, hundreds of miles to the east.
The containers near Yuma were placed in August to cover some missing sections of the border wall, at a time when Ducey was reaffirming his political position on what he said was the inaction of the administration of President Joe Biden to stop migrants entering the state. from Mexico.
A spike in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September raised the number of unauthorized border crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP, for its initials in English).
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