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PHOENIX (U.S.) Oct. 25 (AP) Arizona has begun installing shipping containers on another stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border to fill gaps uncovered by the border wall.
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced Monday the installation of stacks of containers in southeastern Arizona’s Cochise County two weeks after federal officials told him to remove containers he had placed on the southwestern Arizona border.
Ducey filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday, asking the court to allow the state to keep more than 100 double-layer shipping containers topped with barbed wire near the Yuma community near the California border. It also mentions U.S. Forest Service land where the new container was placed hundreds of miles east.
The containers near Yuma were placed in August to fill a gap in the border wall, as Ducey stepped up his political stance against what he called the Biden administration’s inaction in preventing migrants from entering the state from Mexico.
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The new container section targets the 10-mile (16-kilometer) section of the border. Ducey said more than 2,700 60-foot-long (18-meter-long) containers will be needed to fill the gap.
The border wall pushed by former President Donald Trump remains a powerful issue for Republican politicians looking to express support for border security.
Migrants continue to avoid recently erected barriers near Yuma by bypassing them. (Associated Press)
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