For Star subscribers: Arizona is moving leftover shipping containers formerly intended for Gov. Doug Ducey's border barrier from a staging area an hour north of the border to the State Prison Complex in Tucson, apparently for storage. Ducey stopped the…
Danyelle Khmara Arizona is moving shipping containers formerly intended for Gov. Doug Ducey's border barrier from a staging area just north of Huachuca City to the State Prison Complex in Tucson, now that the governor halted the construction under pressure from U.S. officials and area protesters.
People are also reading… Ducey's project had been building unauthorized border barriers on federal land since August, spending more than $123.6 million in taxpayer funds. The Biden administration asked a federal judge Wednesday to let it remove the hundreds of double-stacked storage containers and to bill Arizona for the costs.
The Biden administration has said it intends to close small gaps in the federal border wall built under the Trump administration, including closing 27 gaps and gates located within Sasabe, Nogales and Naco, in work expected to begin in mid-2023. While Ducey intended the Coronado barrier to stretch 10 miles, it reached about 3.5 miles before construction was stopped last week by a small group of protesters.
“The Huachuca Mountains, the San Rafael Valley, this whole area in general, through our own analysis is ranked by many measures as the most important conservation area in the entire Southwest,” said Damien Rawoot, The Nature Conservancy’s Land and Water Protection Manager for Southern Arizona. “This is an area that's really important for biodiversity conservation and for connectivity" for the movement of species.
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