Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office

That’ll stop ‘em!!

Do they realize that they can easily be cut through?

I bet if you called him a racist he’s get all red in the face, burst into tears and demand to know why you’re picking on him.

Ah, the paradox of Republicans. They want cheap workers who will accept worse conditions and fewer rights but are also against immigration.

Are those condominiums?

Arizona Governor Doug Douch-ey

These look so pathetic. Does he really think people can’t get through them?

You can always count on the GOP to waste time and taxpayers' money on pointless gestures.

Competent, they are not.

Spending $95m on this is nuts too.

It's called climbing over and thee do the same with the Dump wall! GOD !!!!!!!!!!! Americans are the dumbest cunts on the planet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a cunt. Someone needs to file charges against this asshole. 95mil is a lot of money that could go into housing projects in Arizona.

I'm so proud of Arizona for giving the GOP the finger..

Petty, ugly, and useless. Like so many in the Republican party.

I’m for a wall as long as it goes all around Arizona. Is there something in the water in AZ, that makes people stupid and mean. No one is even bothering to cross there stupid wall because they prefer Mexico. I guess all those disastrous poverty ridden Native reservations in Az aren’t absorbing Arizonans hate. What a useless bankrupt overgrazed pointless life Arizonans must live. Whole communities of retired firefighters and cops move to Arizona from Cali because it is cheaper. They then vote to keep out those that would wipe their aging asses cheaply. Things don’t go well so they blame Democrats. Besides the Grand Canyon and the Cactuses I would give this state a miss. It is easy to get around on either side and you can fill up on cheap gas in Mexico on your way to somewhere decent.

[quote]It's called climbing over and thee do the same with the Dump wall! GOD !!!!!!!!!!! Americans are the dumbest cunts on the planet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who is the president today? Which candidate won the most votes in 2016? Which party just swept the statewide offices in the state of Arizona? What is the polling history of border wall approval?

The only dumb cunt is you, with your reductive, ignorant generalities.

Who's getting rich off this?

My 1st husband traveled a lot for work and I would go with him .He ended up in Phoenix for a couple of months.I found the Mexican people to be lovely.Warm and open and friendly. The white people gave me the fucking creeps. It was weird but you could almost feel the bigotry and hatred. I thought Texas was bad.

1 term in office 1 term in prison.

[quote]Who's getting rich off this?

My thoughts exactly.

It's clearly a money laundering scheme. I'm sure some of those millions are going to his bank account somehow. Thank good Arizona is turning blue. The incoming governor should threaten with a future investigation.

Don't they have ladders in Mexico.Or trampolines?

The fucked up thing about AZ is a lot of people own 2nd homes in Mexico. We can drive 3.5hrs to a beach town in mx, drink and ride sand rails and just have a crazy good time. Rich and trashy people both go.

Come legally or don’t come. I support greater legal immigration (lots of it) and I have no problem with immigrants. I love the US and hope the new arrivals do too. This is a great place even with all the challenges.

But come legally.

Arizona the beautiful!

R21 If was reasonably able to come legally they would, don't you think?

[quote] My 1st husband traveled a lot for work and I would go with him .He ended up in Phoenix for a couple of months.I found the Mexican people to be lovely.Warm and open and friendly.

Same here.

I honestly don't get all the hate.

They're hard workers too, and do all the jobs that white people won't do.

R23 Duh

I have and will continue to give to candidates who support expanding immigration and improving the admission process. And I vote.

But if someone’s first act to try to immigrate is to break the law, I don’t want them. It sucks, but that’s democracy and the supremacy of laws. I hope it changes soon. It may not.

Nothing excuses the obligation to be lawful, especially an individual’s personal wants and desires. Come legally or don’t come.

And the worst loss is sustained by the migratory animals who have to work that much harder in an already savage environment to do what they have to do.

We’re killing the planet in our vicious stupidity.

R25 Fair and I basically agree but immigration laws are so tight that a lot of them have to come illegally.

R26 yeah, the countless nameless men, women, and children who die trying to come across the border aren’t the worst loss, the migratory animals are.

😳

I can easily see immigrants start to use those crates as homes.

If you've ever seen housing in Brazilian favelas or barrios in Caracas, Venezuela, you'd know that people there actually DO use these little crates as homes in those countries.

So this idiotic Governor has just given border crossers a nice place to live in temporarily, while they go and find jobs in Tucson.

HA!

We need a week without a Mexican. $7 for a head of lettuce sounds fair.

R27 I hear you. I have deep sympathy for anyone who feels that desperate.

But the law supersedes everything for me. Thankfully we have generous asylum laws and more than a hundred countries are on the list. If it’s truly authentically life or death, people are admitted and generously. The process for citizenship is no cake walk, but we are working on that. Sadly, others have to wait or get lucky.

It’s not us or them, R28, it’s them first and then us.

I’m not without sympathy for people trying against poverty, the desert, racism, xenophobia, and our indifference, to make better lives by coming north by any means possible. They’re exploited, ignored, cheated, condescended to, and exposed to every other form of inhumane treatment imaginable.

I just FEEL for animals more because I know most people really don’t give a shit, even as we drive them to extinction.

[Quote] I have and will continue to give to candidates who support expanding immigration and improving the admission process. And I vote.

None of the people coming in illegal would pass the hurdles of legal immigration, which is why they come illegally. And the US with our anti-commie and anti-drug policies caused all the instability that causes people to escape Central America and come here.

It used to be that migrants crossed the border during farming season and then would cross back when that was done. The US then decided to block the borders altogether causing this mad rush to come in and stay in.

This is NOT the big deal the GOP pretends it it. The border repelled over a million people last year. That means our system is working. There are about 11 million illegals in the US. In a country of 350 million, that’s 3%.

That 3% works to allow the American middle class to have some luxuries—lawn and child care, restaurant and home upkeep, cheaper foods because of farming and factory workers. Without them, prices would be far higher for everything.

Wow, those containers look so ghetto. How embarrassing

Migration across the globe will get far worse as global warming will make some lands uninhabitable.

Nothing is more unbreachable than stacked crates!

If nothing else, at least they'll sit out there in the desert looking ugly for generations to come, as a reminder of our stupidity.

How German of him.

Who's cleaning that up?

[quote] But before that happens, they are being laid down by a contractor called AshBritt, a Florida-based disaster remediation firm. A local media investigation found that Ducey’s announced $6m cost for the Yuma barriers had actually cost $13m.

I wonder if this company AshBritt has ties to Rick Scott, Death Sentence, Rubio or the other Florida Republicans. And of course it would have a massive cost overrun as well.

How many habitats and archeological sites have been permanently destroyed by this lunacy? Trump did the same thing a few years ago at Organ Pipe Cactus NM--destroying hundred year old cacti for a stupid fucking wall that they'll get through anyway.

Will the new governor remove them?

This isn't Arizona, but El Paso where thousands just easily cross the border every day at one section. People acting like there is no illegal border crossing are just ignorant.

It's easier to climb over than Trump's stupid wall.

Then who will pick the tomatoes? Or clean the hotel rooms? Or do landscaping?

[quote] People acting like there is no illegal border crossing are just ignorant.

Sticking a bunch of shipping containers on federal lands (that people can get through anyway) is not the way to stop the problem. Then there is the issue of state vs federal land rights.

When we went to Big Bend you could see the ranchers crossing back and forth across the river on horseback. One of the reasons a wall is stupid. Many have land that straddles between the US and Mexico.

It would be very simple to just climb over the damn shipping containers. This is just more GOP dog whistling.

Such a gorgeous addition to the AZ desert.......

I wonder if you can see it from space like the Great Wall of China?

How many trees were destroyed for this?

National forest — isn’t that federally protected land?

Is this governor in violation of those protections?

Walls never work. And that’s the GOP’s only solution

Trash begats trash

Is there a tunnel yet the new prices reflect the costs of digging it

This is so fucked up for animals in the area. "Actual" border structures take into account the needs and movements of local wildlife - these could be blocking paths to water in the desert.

OPs linked article brings that subject up at the end:

[quote]As a barrier for humans, the double-stacked boxes are not much of an obstacle, but they are an existential threat to endangered migratory species, especially jaguars and ocelots, as well as being an eyesore.

[quote]Emily Burns, program director for Sky Island Alliance, a binational conservation nonprofit that tracks wildlife in the Coronado national forest said: “There was no environmental review or planning or mitigation that was done.”

[quote]The Center for Biological Diversity was allowed to join the federal government as a defendant in Ducey’s lawsuit and has slammed the barrier as damaging and a political stunt.

[quote]Meanwhile, Burns noted that her organization has 70 wildlife cameras in this stretch of border and they rarely see migrants crossing there.

" r14, I regret not fully aborting you. "

How did they get those crates out there? I'm sure they built roads with heavy machinery and installed them using cranes, etc. How much environmental damage was caused by that alone?

Who even thought this might be a good idea???

Give me an illegal any day over the sociopathic homies we raised here in the uS.

R59 And especially over the racist old fucks that are flooding into Arizona and Florida. Those tools are utterly worthless human beings, and so full of hate their eyes are red.

[quote]This isn't Arizona, but El Paso where thousands just easily cross the border every day at one section. People acting like there is no illegal border crossing are just ignorant

That's a line of people literally waiting to be TAKEN INTO CUSTODY by Border Patrol so they can start the Asylum/Refugee/Migrant process. The tweet you shared actually says that.

Hate to break it to ya, R43, but that's NOT illegal.

It is kind of beautiful as an art installation in that landscape. It reminds me of Christo’s Running Fence.

Republicans are stupid.

Here's something that racist bigots should consider. Treat others as you would be treated. White people are quickly becoming a minority. Racists who are dismissive of others my soon find themselves in a minority that is pushed around by a new majority who wants payback. Whites may actually someday be treated like slaves and newly freed slaves of yore. Discriminated against, marginalized, pushed into ghettos. They never think of that. Payback is a bitch.

I know it sounds far fetched but when I see historical images of oppressed minorities in this country I am amazed how kind and successful so many are today. Native Americans for example. They were brutalized and slaughtered but the Native people I know are among the kindest people I've met. Can you imagine if every oppressed minority rose up and treated whites like shit in return?

As demographics change, it could happen. Everyone needs to be kind and respectful to each other. Many of our ancestors got here the same way current immigrants do, by the skin of their teeth with only a shirt on their backs.

R5, thank you. Was laugh out loud funny.

Trump couldn't even close the small gaps in the existing wall?

They make good lookouts when you are watching for border control.

Follow the money.I bet there was looting of funds on a scale not seen since the Teapot Dome scandal.Or Trumps white house.

Yes, someone made a lot of money doing this

Nobody 'walks'. How could they survive without food and water for over a month? So why isn't Mexico preventing the human trafficking from Central America to the Texas border? It's obviously via vehicle:

"Mexico's southern border is shared with Guatemala. From that border, it is 1,125 miles by foot to McAllen, Texas. At three miles an hour, that's 375 hours, or about 38 days if they walk 10 hours a day".

[quote] So why isn't Mexico preventing the human trafficking from Central America to the Texas border?

Why should it?

[quote] It's obviously via vehicle

Actually, it's via whatever mechanism people can find in a given day. Sometimes it's walking. Some days they find a car or train. Some of those trying to get to the US have traveled for months.

What if you lose a shoe? Do you hobble the rest of the 1,000 trek over rugged terrain? Do you sleep with scorpions and snakes at night? What if you get separated from a group? How do you know which direction you're going- GPS? Violence, rape, illness, pregnancy, food, water...

I don't believe a word of it. Truckers are being paid by Republican operatives to haul these hopefuls up from Central America for political reasons. Then dropping them off near the Texas border the same way they dropped those off on Martha's Vineyard.