Outgoing Republican Governor Doug Ducey is using nearly $100 million in state taxpayer money to build a border wall made of stacked shipping containers running through a national forest, filling in gaps in the signature folly of the Trump administration, The Guardian reports.
Using $95 million of state taxpayer money, Ducey started dumping shipping containers, stacked two tall, through the Coronado National Forest, with wide gaps in the impromptu, non-engineered, non-designed stacks; basically, Ducey ordered contractors to take old, rusting shipping containers and line them up through a national forest that’s 40 miles from the Mexican border.
Ducey is simultaneously playing to conservative bellyaching about the overreach of the federal government and the federal government somehow simultaneously not doing too much on the border. Ducey claims the area of the Coronado where he dumped the containers is state property illegally seized by the federal government.