Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Outgoing Republican Governor Makes Final Border Move Sure to Enrage Biden

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Governor Doug Ducey is determined to make one last effort to close off the border before leaving office.

In a move that undoubtedly will enrage President Biden, the Republican governor is still filling gaps at the U.S. border with a makeshift wall made of shipping containers.

Ducey has dubbed the project his “Border Barrier Mission,” and his recent push to keep stacking the crates along the border comes before Democrat Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs enters the governor's mansion.

Ducey announced the program in August after experiencing a surge of migrant crossings throughout the summer. “We can't wait any longer. The 's lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty,” Ducey said while announcing the effort

“With the resources and manpower in the right places, our Border Patrol and will be better equipped to do their jobs well and prevent cartels from exploiting our communities. That's exactly what our barrier mission will do,” he said.

Since earlier this year Ducey has arranged shipping containers between openings in the southern , double-stacking the metal crates to around 22 feet high and covering them with concertina wire.

In October, President Biden called on Arizona to remove the makeshift barrier, however, Gov. Ducey refused unless the Administration committed to filling the gaps with a different blockade. 

According to The Hill, an Arizona sheriff says that the governor's border wall violates the law, accusing Ducey of “illegal dumping.”

“The area where they're placing the containers is entirely on federal land, on national forest land,” Hathaway told the outlet. “It's not state land, it's not private land, and the federal government has said this [is] illegal activity. So just the way if I saw somebody doing an assault or a homicide or a vehicle theft on public land within my county, I would charge that person with a .”

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Nancy Jackson
Nancy Jackson
Nancy grew up in the South where her passion for politics first began. After getting her BA in journalism from Ole Miss she became an arts and culture writer for Athens Magazine where she enjoyed reporting on the eclectic music and art scene in Athens, GA. However, her desire to report on issues and policies impacting everyday Americans won out and she packed her bags for Washington, DC. Now, she splits her time between the Nation’s Capital and Philadelphia where she covers the fast-paced environment of politics, business, and news. In her off time, you can find Nancy exploring museums or enjoying brunch with friends.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Bravo for an American governor who still believes there is an America to protect. It is a shame that the president is 100% commitment to destroying our nation. The likelihood that is Hobbs will tear down the wall as she is a democrat who want America to become a socialist country where Big Brother rules and ordinary citizens have no rights. It is a war between communist ideology and that of freedom loving American. This war must be fought in the minds of each American for the future of America is on the line!

  2. About the only thing the Governor should add to his container wall would be some land mines and maybe some Claymores to the barbed wire. That should get the illegals attention.

  3. So obviously the Sheriff cited does not give a damn about the harm done to our Border Patrol Agents, the murder of CITIZENS by ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT criminals and gangs the people who live along the border, and all the other Americans especially young, people being murdered by the drug trades coming to the Country ILLEGALLY and the land being trashed with the junk left by the ILLEGALS. I would bet he has not lifted a finger to help clean the mess up. I have no doubt he is a puppet of Soros whose objective is to destroy the USA.

  4. Old Sniffy regularly violates constitutional law so how does he think he can force the Gov. to stop what he is doing?

  5. Everything fraud Joe has done while occupying the WH is null and void. He is a mentally incompetent person, incapable of making decisions, and no one is stopping the mentally I’ll doofus from destroying the USA. Soros has bought the Hispanic Am radio stations so his minions can brainwash the ignorant illegal aliens.

  6. Well, if the Feds refuse to enforce the LAW, what is a poor State to do? And that woman on video is flying the pseudo-rainbow flag of the Queep Nation!

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