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| Arizona sheriff calls on Gov. Ducey to stop sending shipping containers to border for makeshift wall |
| 2022-12-11 |
| [FoxNews] Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway said he'll start making arrests if the shipping crates come into the county. An Arizona county sheriff said Saturday that he’s frustrated with Gov. Doug Ducey sending large shipping containers to the border in an effort to construct a makeshift border wall. With the containers reaching within 6 miles of Santa Cruz County, Sheriff David Hathaway told FOX 10 Phoenix he’ll arrest anyone who tries to place them in the county, which he referred to as "illegal dumping." "The area where they're placing the containers is entirely on federal land, on national forest land," the sheriff told the station. "It's not state land, it's not private land, and the federal government has said this [is] illegal activity. So just the way if I saw somebody doing an assault or a homicide or a vehicle theft on public land within my county, I would charge that person with a crime." Ducey filed a lawsuit against the federal government in October when he was told to stop double stacking the more than 100 containers in the border wall gaps on federal and tribal lands near Yuma. He has been ordering containers to the border since last summer. "Our border communities are overwhelmed by illegal activity as a result of the Biden administration’s failure to secure the southern border," Ducey said in a statement at the time. "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 Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office and the governor’s office didn’t immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Related: Doug Ducey: 2022-10-31 Biden admin accuses Arizona of trespassing by building barrier on U.S.-Mexico border Doug Ducey: 2022-10-20 Arizona fires back at Biden admin's demand it remove shipping containers filling gaps at border Doug Ducey: 2022-09-09 Lori Lightfoot Welcomed Migrants Bused to Chicago...But Then They Were Sent Outside the City |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 Who owns Arizona border land? The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot (18 m)-wide strip of land owned by the United States Federal Government along the United States side of the United States–Mexico Border in three of the four border states. In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt in a Presidential Proclamation (35 Stat. 2136) established the reservation in order to keep all public lands along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico "free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico" VIEW OF AZ BORDER OWNERSHIP |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-12-11 17:12 |
| #6 How can a county sheriff arrest someone on federal land? Isn't that a federal offense? It should be handled by federal agents - FBI, DHS, etc. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2022-12-11 15:36 |
| #5 #1 is unfortunately correct sez this Tucsonian. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2022-12-11 14:01 |
| #4 Send the State Police to arrest the Sheriff. |
| Posted by: Bertie Lumplump1970 2022-12-11 12:34 |
| #3 The issue for the sheriff — or the excuse — is placement on federal property, not state land. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-11 12:29 |
| #2 If containers are being placed of state controlled property. If will be interesting to see how long the LSD PUPPET sheriff keeps his state issued certification. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-12-11 10:23 |
| #1 Sheriff is tool of Marxist congressman Raul Grijalva who supports all La Raza activity in Arizona. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2022-12-11 06:18 |