The U.S. government sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state Wednesday over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico, saying it is trespassing on federal lands.
The complaint filed in U.S. District Court comes three weeks before the Republican governorDucey told U.S. officials earlier this week that Arizona stands ready to help remove the containers, which he says were placed as a temporary barrier. But he wants the U.S. government to say when it will fill any remaining gaps in the permanentThe U.S. "owes it to Arizonans and all Americans to release a timeline," he wrote in a Tuesday letter, responding to news of the pending federal complaint.
The complaint by the Department of Justice asks the court that Arizona be ordered to halt placement and remove the containers in remote San Rafael Valley in easternmost Cochise County. The work placing up to 3,000 containers at a cost of $95 million is about a third complete, but protesters concerned about its impact on the environment have held up work in recent days.
"Officials from Reclamation and the Forest Service have notified Arizona that it is trespassing on federal lands," the complaint reads. The action also seeks damages to compensate the United States to fix any damage along the border. The move was applauded by U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, who represents southern Arizona. He called the project an "illegal junkyard border wall.", said the federal complaint "should be the beginning of the end of Doug Ducey’s lawless assault on protected national forestlands and endangered wildlife."YUMA, ARIZONA - SEPTEMBER 27: In this aerial view, shipping containers fill previous gaps in the U.S.-Mexico border wall on September 27, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona.
"The number one public safety risk and environmental harm has come from inaction by the federal government to secure our border," Ducey wrote, with the January 2021 halt in the building of Trump’s border wall resulting in "an ever-increasing number of migrants who continue to flow into the state."
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