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Protesters block construction of Arizona border wall made of shipping containers
nbc ^ | 12/13/2022

Posted on 12/13/2022 8:31:33 PM PST by BenLurkin

Twenty protesters withstood freezing temperatures over the weekend to defy the project, which started in August after Ducey issued an executive order directing the state Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fill gaps in the existing border wall in Yuma County.

The project's $95 million expansion into Cochise County comprises about 3,000 steel containers, The Associated Press reported.

Ducey's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Until last week, when protesters blocked access to the site, work crews stacked hundreds of shipping containers topped with razor wire along Arizona's remote eastern boundary with Mexico.

Demonstrators say they will not leave until the containers are removed, even if it means camping in tents in below-freezing temperatures. Recently, a volunteer bought a Christmas tree for the protest site.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; borderwall; buildthatwall; cochisecounty; demonstrators; immigration
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1 posted on 12/13/2022 8:31:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Camp away, Jose!


2 posted on 12/13/2022 8:33:31 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: BenLurkin

Gee, why didn’t this happen before the election?


3 posted on 12/13/2022 8:35:54 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: BenLurkin

Is it freeing out side? I suggest fire hoses


4 posted on 12/13/2022 8:35:58 PM PST by NorseWood
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To: BenLurkin

They are anti-American subversives. Back when we were a sovereign country those people would have forfeited their lives as traitors and foreign agents.
Tried, Convicted, and Hung.


5 posted on 12/13/2022 8:36:08 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: ocrp1982

Dig holes...push them in...cover them with dirt....put containers on top and then fill them with concrete.

Let anthropologists 2000 years from now try to figure it out.


6 posted on 12/13/2022 8:40:00 PM PST by Spaceman61
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To: TribalPrincess2U
They can freeze in the desert. No water. No wifi. No cellphone service. No Starbucks. No Starbucks bathroom. No Job. Snakes. Scorpions. Spiders. What's not to like?   /s

7 posted on 12/13/2022 8:41:53 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Spaceman61

Dig holes...push them in...cover them with dirt....put containers on top and then fill them with concrete.

Let anthropologists 2000 years from now try to figure it out.
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I was going to simply post; “plop the containers on top of them”, but you took it to the pinnacle of humor!

Thank you for the laugh


8 posted on 12/13/2022 8:42:55 PM PST by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: BenLurkin

Build it around them with them on the other side.


9 posted on 12/13/2022 8:43:16 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: BenLurkin

Freezing temps. Should have brought out some fire truck, hosed them down and then left. They wouldn’t be there long.

Doesn’t really matter though. Unless Lake can pull off a miracle, a good analogy for Arizona would be to liken it to a, Dead Man Walking.

Title 42 is going to end next week. And that is going to cripple the health care system along the border. Just wait til illegals show up at the ER needing some type of life saving surgery.

Believe it or not, even Gavin Newsome stated that Title 42 needs to stay in place. This from the guy that is pushing state paid for healthcare to illegals already in Cali.


10 posted on 12/13/2022 8:43:45 PM PST by qaz123
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, just take the protesters and mix them in with a little cement and use it to bond the containers together. Then, they can silently protest there forever and forever.

Amen!


11 posted on 12/13/2022 8:44:48 PM PST by CFW
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To: Spaceman61

Dig holes...push them in...cover them with dirt....put containers on top and then fill them with concrete.
Let anthropologists 2000 years from now try to figure it out.

Could not agree more. Those people are a real and present danger to this country and our people.
Responsible for untold deaths by illegal aliens and other criminal types that the Dems see as their voter base via Mail-in ballots counted WEEKS after Election Day.


12 posted on 12/13/2022 8:48:36 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: BenLurkin

TWENTY PROTESTERS...are you kidding me.

I had more protesters than that when I didn’t mow my lawn quickly enough.


13 posted on 12/13/2022 8:49:03 PM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Hobbs will be removing them and welcoming another million communist voters starting in January...

Doochey waited far too long to do anything...
There will be a marginal difference between Hobbs and Doochey...


14 posted on 12/13/2022 8:49:42 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: BenLurkin

Camp in tents all they like but aren’t they camped in a high fire risk zone? Sure would be a shame if they can’t get campfire permits and that dead tree is a fire hazard. They’re probably disturbing endangered lizards and scorpions, too.


15 posted on 12/13/2022 8:50:51 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Spaceman61
>>200 years from now try to figure out

They high ranking priest/nobles/leaders, buried in a religious ritual.

16 posted on 12/13/2022 8:52:40 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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We need more Rachel Corries


17 posted on 12/13/2022 9:14:26 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: BenLurkin
The shipping containers, while not perfect by any means are better than the crap Trump fell for approving.

And all it takes is a couple of left wingers to BLOCK the construction. They WIN. And they WIN ALL THE TIME. Instead of sending 5-10 men to go down there and crush their skulls, CONservative LOSERS do what they do best--LOSE.

and in 8 days, you will lose your country forever.

18 posted on 12/13/2022 9:15:21 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Snakes be hibernating unfortunately.


19 posted on 12/13/2022 9:24:46 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: blueplum

Fire risk?

Not familiar with the desert, I take it?
A barren desert around there, hard to even gather wood for a fire to keep warm, sucks to be a liberal in the southern desert.


20 posted on 12/13/2022 9:28:10 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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