Arizona's Republican governor has begun using shipping containers to fortify a second section of the southern border despite being ordered to take down barriers in another part of the state.
Gov. Doug Ducey is taking legal action, asking a court to allow more than 100 double-stacked containers, topped with razor wire, to stay in place close to Yuma.
The Biden administration has warned him that the action amounts to trespass on federal lands.
The biden administration claims the AZ Governor should be charged with trespassing, but not the illegals who trespass on the very same Arizona State Land?
The row illustrates how immigration is a potent election issue for Republicans in border states ahead of next week's midterm elections.
Last week, Ducey shared video of the container wall.
'In just four days, we've closed 1,280 feet of open border with 64 double-stacked containers,' he tweeted. 'Where there’s a will, there's a way!'
His push began in August during a record surge in people illegally crossing the border as part of an effort to highlight what he says in the inaction of the Biden administration.
Arizona's Governor continues stacking containers to close the border.
The new section covers a 10-mile stretch of the border, which Ducey said would be blocked by 2,700 of the 60-foot shipping containers.
However the Biden administration says the governor has no right to block the border.
'The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States,' the Bureau of Reclamation letter stated last earlier.
'That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding Reclamation's ability to perform its mission.'
The lawsuit says that the state has: 'concurrent jurisdiction with the appropriate federal governmental entity over those parts of the Roosevelt Reservation located in the State.'
In a statement launching the suit Ducey said the federal government was intent on undoing efforts to prevent illegal immigration.
'Our border communities are overwhelmed by illegal activity as a result of the Biden administration's failure to secure the southern border,' he said. 'Arizona is taking action to protest on behalf of our citizens.
'With this lawsuit, we're pushing back against efforts by federal bureaucrats to reverse the progress we've made.
'The safety and security of Arizona and its citizens must not be ignored. Arizona is going to do the job that Joe Biden refuses to do — secure the border in any way we can. We're not backing down.'
The border is a potent issue for Republicans ahead of next week's midterm elections.
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