Posted on 10/31/2022 3:35:17 PM PDT by algore
Arizona's Republican governor has begun using shipping containers to fortify a second section of the southern border despite being ordered to take down barriers in another part of the state.
Gov. Doug Ducey is taking legal action, asking a court to allow more than 100 double-stacked containers, topped with razor wire, to stay in place close to Yuma.
The Biden administration has warned him that the action amounts to trespass on federal lands.
The row illustrates how immigration is a potent election issue for Republicans in border states ahead of next week's midterm elections.
Last week, Ducey shared video of the container wall.
'In just four days, we've closed 1,280 feet of open border with 64 double-stacked containers,' he tweeted. 'Where there’s a will, there's a way!'
His push began in August during a record surge in people illegally crossing the border as part of an effort to highlight what he says in the inaction of the Biden administration.
The new section covers a 10-mile stretch of the border, which Ducey said would be blocked by 2,700 of the 60-foot shipping containers.
However the Biden administration says the governor has no right to block the border.
'The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States,' the Bureau of Reclamation letter stated last earlier.
'That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding Reclamation's ability to perform its mission.'
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Get Lake in office ASAP, she is ready for this fight. Duchy, not so much.
AZ is fully entitled to protect its citizens from invasion but let’s get it on.
Resist.
Now those bumper stickers make sense.
Doing the job the federal government is supposed to do.
There must be a word that describes what it means for public officials to encourage an invasion.
Maybe one that starts with “T”?
When he started this I said that the only problem would be trespassing on federal land.
To really outsmart them, buy a strip of land along the fed border area, and erect there
It truly is sad, when the feds are anti American
Federal land? No, it’s The People’s land.
How can the AZ Governor be charged with trespassing and not the illegals who trespass on the very same federal property? Oh yeah, DC dictatorial communism.
Charging US citizens for trespassing on federal land when they dare to try stopping non-citizens from trespassing on federal land.
Bizarro world, brought to you by the 21st century One-Ring-to-Rule-Them-All De⋔ocrats.
Not surprising, coming from the guy who sent the fbi after his enemies.
Those shipping containers and razor wire are asylum seekers. Leave em be.
The absolute audacity of that administration to say that Arizona defending itself from foreign invasion amounts to trespass while the Fed Gov remains derelict in its duty is maddening.
sue for failure of us govt to protect the state from invasion..
Arizona, ignore Biden. Fill the containers with concrete.
Who exactly is guilty of trespassing. The illegals or the governor? Who exactly is he defending? Well, we know - but still - Wow!
Biden is the Trespasser in Chief
Whose land is it?
What entity are they paying property taxes to???
ALL..”federal” lands are managed under a trust.
Its not really “federal” land since they cant own anything other than what is stated in the US Constitution.
All the governor has to do is declare that the trust has been violated and take it over. Get the state legislature to back it up just to be sure.
In this case, there is a state emergency and the federal government refuses to respond.
The ONLY Federal land deeded by the Constitution to The Federal Government is the “10 square miles constituting the District” which comprises some of Maryland and Virginia; everything else they’ve illegally usurped.
So what is the correct answer.
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