Arizona taxpayers will spend $76 million to take down the shipping containers that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey used state dollars to put along the U.S.-Mexico border.
New contracts show Ducey's Department of Administration has agreed to pay AshBritt Management & Logistics $57.2 million to tear down the containers in Cochise County and transport them to Tucson. That is on top of the $95 million allocated to the company to put them there in the first place.
In fact, the governor's private attorney — hired with state tax dollars — filed legal papers in federal court less than a week ago to keep alive a separate lawsuit he filed asking a judge to declare there is no federal ownership of the land. "We don't know what we stopped,'' Karamargin said."We know that local law enforcement officials, like the sheriffs in Cochise and Yuma County, were both appreciative of the effort because it made their job to protect their communities a little bit easier.''
Yet, a month later, Ducey issued an executive order directing that gaps near Yuma be filled with a line of double-high shipping containers. Construction costs came out of a $335 million Arizona Border Security Fund approved by lawmakers earlier this year as part of a new state budget. But there are strings on use of those dollars, including requirements they be spent solely to erect a barrier.
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