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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has said a makeshift border wall was knocked over by criminals just a day after it was put up.
Last week, Ducey had ordered 60 double-stacked shipping containers with razor wires to be used to complete the border wall in Yuma to stop migrants from coming through, but two containers were blown to the side by Monday.
Although it was reported that the containers were toppled by heavy winds, C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for Ducey, refuted the theory, the Washington Examiner reported.
A plan to fill gaps in the Arizona-Mexico border wall hit a roadblock this week after two of the shipping containers Arizona is using as a wall were found tipped over. https://t.co/4Ppe6MrTex
— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) August 18, 2022
‘The idea that it was a weather-related event seems unlikely,’ Karamargin said. ‘The attempt to slow us down that happened late Sunday with these containers being knocked or pulled over, that will not deter us.’
The frustration in Arizona comes as Mexican authorities stopped an 18-wheeler from smuggling 150 migrants sweltering inside the truck before entering Texas.
Ducey said he was tired of illegal immigration when constructing the makeshift wall in Yuma.
‘Arizona has had enough,’ Ducey said in a tweet discussing the plan while condemning President Joe Biden.
‘We can’t wait any longer. The Biden administration’s lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty.’
The Yuma sector of the border, 126 miles long, has seen an almost 300 percent increase in ‘border encounters’ – migrants arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents – this year, compared to the same time frame in 2021.
The Biden Administration announced late last month that it had authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall near Yuma.
Biden had pledged during his campaign to cease all future wall construction, but the administration later agreed to some barriers, citing safety.
