Protesters block construction of Arizona border wall made of shipping containers
In the waning days of his term, Gov. Doug Ducey has continued to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that environmentalists and residents say is unnecessary and destructive.
Dec. 13, 2022, 7:55 PM CST
By Alicia Victoria Lozano
What started as a small demonstration has turned into a two-week standoff as residents and environmentalists fight outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s effort to wall off sections of the U.S.-Mexico border with shipping containers.
Twenty protesters withstood freezing temperatures over the weekend to defy the project, which started in August after Ducey issued an executive order directing the state Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fill gaps in the existing border wall in Yuma County.
The project's $95 million expansion into Cochise County comprises about 3,000 steel containers, The Associated Press reported.
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Until last week, when protesters blocked access to the site, work crews stacked hundreds of shipping containers topped with razor wire along Arizona's remote eastern boundary with Mexico.
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