Feds: Arizona border containers 'unlawful'

Howard Fischer PHOENIX — A lawsuit by Gov. Doug Ducey seeking control of land along the border to place shipping containers is"flawed on so many fronts" that it should not be allowed to proceed, lawyers for the federal government say.

People are also reading… Put another way, he said the land at issue — land the United States acquired from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe and, later, the Gadsden Purchase — could not possibly belong to the state because the state did not exist. And Smith said acknowledgment of that federal ownership was a condition on Arizona being accepted into the Union.

It started in August with the governor ordering his Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to build nearly 3,820 feet of containers near Yuma on land controlled by the Bureau of Reclamation. Then he directed the agency to begin construction of another 10 miles of containers on Forest Service land in Cochise County.

"Arizona is going to do the job that Joe Biden refuses to do — secure the border in any way we can," the governor said in filing suit last month, referring to the president's decision shortly after taking office to halt construction of the border fence that his predecessor, Donald Trump, had started."We're not backing down."

But U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton ruled it is settled precedent that the term"invasion" does not apply to a state's claim based on illegal immigration.And he said even if Ducey were right — that the state can use the constitutional power of self defense in immigration issues — the governor's arguments still fail.

Secure our borders now.

yvonnewingett So are illegals and drugs sneaking in our country by the millions. Drug cartel kickbacks from CCP?

PS. In the beginning, Why didn't Arizona Daily Star write about the obvious illegality of Ducey's blatant building on federal and tribal lands.

Tweeted from the very beginning that Ducey was violating federal law by building without permission on federal and tribal lands. As usual, fascist republicans think laws don't apply to them. In the fed suit against Arizona, Ducey should be personally sued to pay reparations.

yvonnewingett We’ll see.

I’m waiting for a fire sale on the ones that blew over! They’d be worth more selling them than some stupid stunt to rile up the xenophobes

yvonnewingett The federal government has three jobs. Collect taxes, defend the borders, and stay the hell out of my business. They don't do any of them very well.

Dear Rag from the Blue Toilet of Tucson, SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE. Common Sense.

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