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One Governor’s Border Wall Is Another Governor’s Headache [1]
['Jack Healy']
Date: 2022-12-19
U.S./MEXICO BORDER, Ariz. — Andy Wrenn could not believe all the trucks. Every morning starting this fall, a herd of pickups rumbled past his home in the Huachuca Mountains near Arizona’s southern border, hauling shipping containers to a grassland populated mostly by songbirds and mule deer.
Then Mr. Wrenn drove down to the border and saw what was going on. The steel containers were not transporting anything — they were the thing being transported.
Each empty container was a 9,000-pound brick in a border wall being built on federal land by the outgoing Republican governor, Doug Ducey. The barrier is a rebuke of President Biden’s border policies that has transformed a quiet corner of the Coronado National Forest into the country’s oddest battleground over immigration and public lands.
“To have this pile of scrap metal just sitting there — it’s so unbelievable,” Mr. Wrenn said.
As the wall grew to nearly four miles long, scores of protesters and angry residents arrived to block further work. A Democratic sheriff in the county next door threatened to arrest construction crews and their security guards if they crossed into his territory. But local Republican leaders and some ranchers in the area support the barrier, saying they feel abandoned by the federal government when it comes to ensuring border security.
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