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Anita Snow
PHOENIX (AP) — Efforts by the Republican Government of Arizona . Doug Ducey tried to use shipping containers to fill his 1,000-foot gap in the U.S.-Mexico border wall near Yuma, but his two stacked containers somehow toppled over, causing him to collapse. suffered a short setback.
Claudia Ramos, a digital correspondent for her platform for her Univision Noticias in Arizona, posted a picture of her lying container on Monday morning. Posted on Twitter feed. She said they fell on the US side of the border.
There are no eyewitnesses to testify to what happened on Sunday night.
Ramos said contractors in the area told her that strong monsoon winds may have caused the container to collapse.
However, Ducey spokesman C.J. Karamargin said he doubted that hypothesis, adding that despite being empty, the container still weighed thousands of pounds. rice field.
"It is unlikely that this was a weather phenomenon," said Karamargin, suggesting that someone who opposed the wall was to blame. The pair were fixed by early Monday morning.
"Obviously I'm nervous. They don't like what we're doing and they don't want to keep their borders open," said a spokesman. said.
Officials at Ducey's office say they acted to stop immigration after the Biden administration repeatedly failed to deliver on promises to close the gap.
Federal officials have not commented on state actions taken without express authorization on federal land. meters) and began moving and stacking 9-foot-high (2.7-meter-high) shipping containers. The other he closed the 1,000-foot (305-meter) gap between the two of hers as well. A 4-foot (1.2-meter) razor wire is attached to the top of the container.
Karamargin said border guards informed the governor's office around midnight that the container had been knocked over.
"They are not yet protected," he said. "This happened before we secured the containers to the ground. They were later bolted and immobilized."
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