Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday after repeated promises from the Biden administration to block off the area.
The move by Arizona comes without explicit permission on federal land, with state contractors starting to stack two containers on top of each other. The containers will be topped with razor wire, and they plan to finish the job within days.
Three gaps in the border wall will be filled by the state in the coming weeks.
The federal government has committed to doing this, but we can't wait for them to do it.
John Mennell, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the agency had just learned of Arizona's actions and was not prepared to comment at this time.
The move is the latest in a series of actions by the border state against what they say is Biden's lack of action on immigration. The end of the "Remain in Mexico" program was the reason for it, according to Annie Foster. Thousands of migrants who make it into the country were not returned because of the program.
Over the last three months, Arizona has sent two to three buses of asylum seekers from Yuma to Washington in order to make a political statement. Everyone on the bus trips is going to the capital with their final destinations in the east coast.
The request by the mayors of New York and Washington to the federal government to deal with the influx of immigrants is evidence that the US is in an immigration crisis, according to Republicans.
According to the governor's office, the state of Arizona had sent over a thousand asylum seekers to Washington.
The Legislature authorized $335 million for the construction of fencing along the border with Mexico.
In an election year, border security has become a potent political foil for Republicans. He criticized Biden in the letter for the budget.
"Arizona will not sit idly by as the Biden administration fails to do its job and safeguard our state and nation from the clear and present danger of an unguarded border."
The completion of the U.S.-Mexico border wall was given the go-ahead by the Biden Administration. The area has become one of the busiest corridors for illegal crossing and they were going to fill in four gaps. There was a discrepancy between the three gaps identified and the federal government's plans.
During his campaign, Biden promised to stop all future wall construction, but the administration later agreed to some barriers. The Department of Homeland Security planned to close four wide gaps in the wall to make it harder for migrants to slip down a slope and drown in the Colorado River.
The completion of the project near the Morelos Dam was authorized by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who officials said reflected the administration's priority to deploy modern, effective border measures and also improve safety and security along the Southwest Border.
Arizona points to a rise in migrants coming into the state as a reason for their actions. In the first half of this year, agents stopped more than 160,000 people in the Yuma sector. Del Rio and the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas had the most traffic.
No action had been taken to close the gaps despite the federal promise. The project may take weeks or months to be put out to bid.
Even if the government objects, Foster decided to act.
At this point, we are closing that gap and we will figure out the consequences as we move forward. The federal government has a duty to protect the states according to the constitution. They didn't do that
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