Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs said last week she was “looking at all the options” and hasn't decided what to do about the containers after her Jan. 5. inauguration.
Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs said last week she was “looking at all the options” and hasn't decided what to do about the containers after her Jan. 5. inauguration. She previouslybe repurposed as affordable housing, an increasingly popular option for homeless and low-income people.
“A lot of damage could be done here between now and early January,” said Russ McSpadden, a Southwest conservation advocate for theDucey insists Arizona holds sole or shared jurisdiction over the 60-foot strip the containers rest on and has a constitutional right to protect residents from “imminent danger of criminal and humanitarian crises.”
Ducey's move comes amid a record flow of migrants arriving at the border. U.S. border officials have stopped migrantsin the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up 37% from the year before. The annual total surpassed 2 million for the first time in August and is more than twice the highest level during Trump’s presidency, in 2019.
Still, yawning gaps remain in the new container wall, including an open space of several hundred yards on terrain far too steep to place the containers. In some low lying wash areas there are gaps nearly three feet wide. The newer project is far larger, costing some $95 million and using up to 3,000 containers to cover 10 miles , in Arizona’s southeastern Cochise County. The U.S. Forest Service also told Arizona to halt its work in the Coronado National Forest, andto potential hazards posed by construction equipment involved in the state’s “unauthorized activities.”
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