{"id":2018319,"date":"2023-08-31T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-to-pay-biden-admin-2-1-million-after-putting-up-makeshift-border-wall\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:03:26","slug":"arizona-to-pay-biden-admin-2-1-million-after-putting-up-makeshift-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-to-pay-biden-admin-2-1-million-after-putting-up-makeshift-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona to pay $2.1 million to Biden administration for makeshift border wall."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-to-pay-biden-admin-2-1-million-after-putting-up-makeshift-border-wall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Arizona to Pay $2.1 Million \u200bfor\u2062 Makeshift Border Wall<\/h2>\n<p>In a bid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/az-border-chief-says-illegal-immigration-on-track-to-top-past-three-years-combined-already-surpassed-2018\/\" title=\"AZ Border Chief Says Illegal Immigration On Track To Top Past Three Years Combined: \u2018Already Surpassed\u2019 2018\">deter illegal immigration<\/a> into \u200bthe U.S., Arizona \u2062will pay $2.1 million to the federal government for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-expands-border-barrier-projects-in-eagle-pass\/\" title=\"Texas Expands Border Barrier Projects in Eagle Pass\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-constructs-border-wall-with-shipping-containers\/\" title=\"Texas constructs border wall with shipping containers\">makeshift border wall<\/a> made<\/a> \u2064up of\u2064 shipping containers.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Action and\u2064 Environmental Remediation<\/h3>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u2063 brought legal action against Arizona in \u2062December\u2062 2022 \u200bafter then-Governor\u2064 Doug Ducey \u2062issued an\u2062 executive order to place shipping containers along the state&#8217;s \u2064border\u200b with Mexico. The Department of Justice claimed that the wall \u200bhad been erected \u2064unlawfully \u200cand without authority, damaging the United States.\u2063 As a result,\u2064 Ducey agreed to\u200b remove the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Arizona will pay\u2063 the U.S. Forest Service for environmental remediation efforts, \u2064as federal officials \u200bstated \u2063that the containers had damaged\u2064 federal \u200bland. The containers were \u200cplaced \u200din Cochise and Yuma counties,\u200b where \u200bborder crossings have\u200c been \u200bhigh. The federal suit\u2062 against Arizona\u2064 is expected\u200c to\u200b be\u200b withdrawn after\u2062 the remediation payment is complete.<\/p>\n<h3>Arizona&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Arizona has had enough,&#8221; said Ducey in a statement.\u200d &#8220;We can&#8217;t \u2064wait any longer.\u2063 The Biden\u2063 administration&#8217;s lack \u2064of\u200b urgency\u200c on border security \u2063is a dereliction of duty. For the last two years, Arizona has \u2062made every attempt to work\u200c with \u2062Washington to address the crisis on our border. Time and time again we&#8217;ve stepped in \u200dto clean up their mess. Arizonans can&#8217;t wait any longer for the \u2064federal government to deliver on their\u200b delayed promises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK\u2064 HERE TO GET THE\u200b DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>The Cost and Opposition<\/h3>\n<p>Within 11 days of Ducey&#8217;s order, 3,820 feet of the previously open\u200d border were closed with 130 shipping containers. The initiative expanded with 6,680 feet \u2063of containers stacked two high throughout Cochise County \u2063by early November. The barriers reportedly\u200b cost around $95 million to install and about \u200b$66 million to\u200c remove after the Biden administration sued. The containers have\u2064 since been put up for sale by the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u200d Democratic Governor Katie\u200b Hobbs\u200c opposed the construction\u200d of the\u200b barriers,\u200d stating\u2063 that they were ineffective. &#8220;It&#8217;s not land that&#8217;s our land to put \u200cthings \u2064on. That&#8217;s one problem. The containers aren&#8217;t working. There are many pictures\u2062 of people climbing over\u2063 them,&#8221; \u2062she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a political \u2062stunt. It&#8217;s a visual barrier that is not actually \u200dproviding an effective barrier to entry, and I think a waste of taxpayer dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona will pay $2.1 million to the federal government for a makeshift border wall made of shipping containers. 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