Lawsuit claims Arizona must remove its improvised border wall

• Biden sued Arizona over border shipping containers.
• The feds and Arizona agreed to dismantle the containers.
• “Arizona has had enough,” he said at the time. “We can’t wait any longer.”

A court document filed on Wednesday stated that Arizona had consented to take down the shipping containers that had been erected as a temporary barrier along its shared border with Mexico.

Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, a Republican who has criticized the Biden administration’s border policies, issued an executive order in August instructing the state Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to use shipping containers to close gaps along the border without receiving permission or authorization from higher authorities, Media previously reported.

“Arizona has had enough,” he said at the time. “We can’t wait any longer.”

The 8,800-pound, 9-by-40-foot containers are 22 feet tall when stacked, welded together, and topped with four feet of razor wire, the governor’s office claimed. Trump administration border wall is around 30 feet high.

Since then, the feds have fought the state to remove the canisters.

The Biden administration sued Arizona this month over border shipping containers.

The federal government and Arizona have since agreed to demolish the containers.

“By January 4, 2023, to the extent feasible and so as not to cause damage to United States’ lands, properties, and natural resources, Arizona will remove all previously installed shipping containers and associated equipment, materials, vehicles, and other objects from the United States’ properties in the U.S. Border Patrol Yuma Sector, including from lands over which the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation holds an easement on the Cocopah Indian Tribe’s West Reservation,” the filing says.

A few days into the endeavor, two shipping containers collapsed. Strong gusts were the cause, contractors in the region told a Univision reporter who posted pictures of the collapsed containers.

The office of Governor Ducey stated that they believed there had been criminal activity. According to spokeswoman CJ Karamargin, no comparable events have been reported after that time.

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