Arizona
Arizona sheriff plans to stop shipping containers at border wall
Arizona sheriff: Transport containers at border is ‘unlawful dumping’
The sheriff informed FOX 10 that he plans to arrest building crews and safety personnel in the event that they attain Santa Cruz County.
PHOENIX – A southern Arizona sheriff says he plans to cease transport containers from being stacked on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway says that for the final 4 days, protesters have been exhibiting up on the border, stopping crews from establishing the makeshift barrier.
Hathaway says he helps these protests, and calls Governor Ducey’s order to make use of transport containers as a border wall “unlawful dumping.”
The sheriff informed FOX 10 that he plans to arrest building crews and safety personnel in the event that they attain Santa Cruz County.
“The world the place they’re putting the containers is fully on federal land, on nationwide forest land,” Hathaway stated. “It isn’t state land, it is not personal land, and the federal authorities has stated this [is] criminality. So simply the best way if I noticed someone doing an assault or a murder or a automobile theft on public land inside my county, I’d cost that individual with a criminal offense.”
Hathaway says building has moved inside about 6 miles from Santa Cruz County, immediately south of Tucson.
Supporters of the transport containers say the work is a matter of safety and deters unlawful immigration, human smuggling and drug smuggling.
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