Arizona's shipping container wall on border is coming down

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PHOENIX (AP) — Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months as they were set up and taken down again.

Removal of the hulking red, gold and blue steel boxes is creating a stark visual shift in affected sections of Arizona's southern landscape as a new governor takes power and another $76 million in state funds is spent to remove the containers on top of the $95 million it cost to put them there.

Ducey had said the containers placed at an opening along the border near the western community of Yuma and across a grassland valley in eastern Arizona's Cochise County were intended as a temporary measure until the Biden administration undertook permanent construction to secure the border.

Gov. Katie Hobbs, who was sworn in this week, was among Democrats who called it a political stunt.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arizona-s-shipping-container-wall-on-border-is-coming-down/ar-AA163zfp

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1. AZ taxpayers sure have doled out lots of $$$ for Duceys political stunt..

Copies of new contracts show the Department of Administration has agreed to pay AshBritt Management & Logistics $57.2 million to tear down the containers in Cochise County and transport them to Tucson. That is on top of the $95 million allocated to the company to put them there in the first place.

Another addition to the contract gives the firm more than $9.3 million to deconstruct the 3,820-foot ersatz wall of double high containers it put up near Yuma at a cost of $6 million.

And then there's $9.8 million to transport the containers that were awaiting planned use in the barrier from their current location near Sierra Vista up to Tucson.

https://www.kawc.org/news/2022-12-30/arizona-taxpayers-to-foot-the-bill-to-remove-shipping-containers-at-the-border

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2. All that money could have been spent for the welfare of the voters..

Housing, schools, food, homeless n immigrants need all these things. Can’t find the money for necessities but this madness is ok for the former r governor. Ridiculous.

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3. I was in Palominas yesterday, a small community very near to the site. I was told there was a large

lot filled with the containers being hauled out. I didn't see it, but found out later it was nearby.
A guy could get a container cheap about now. The semis and reach lifts are taking them down all day.

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