Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s shipping container wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has garnered attention and criticism, but a local sheriff says the makeshift barrier has a positive impact for the community.
Ducey’s border wall project in Arizona’s Cochise County has received attention this week after environmental protests brought construction to a halt, but this is not the first shipping container wall Ducey has built in the state.
Over the summer, Ducey launched a wall-building project in Yuma County in the far western part of the state. Using 130 shipping containers topped with razor wire, Ducey filled 3,820 feet of previously open border. The project is reported to have cost about $6 million.
“The containers were placed in the areas needed due to agricultural concerns impacting local farmers, and to help stop the environmental impacts we were experiencing along the river corridor,” Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told The Daily Signal in an email Tuesday. . . . more
we showed them just how quickly and efficiently the border can be made more secure—if you want to.
If the federal government wanted to. That is depressing. This brings back memories of people from 2018 that were repeating the "no borders" mantra.
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