Arizona agrees to take down shipping container border wall to settle Biden lawsuit - Fox News

Under unit from the Biden administration, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is halting operation of a wall fashioned from shipping containers astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Republican politician reached a colony with the Department of Justice successful which Arizona agreed to halt operation of the borderline partition connected nationalist wood lands, according to tribunal documents filed with the U.S. District Court successful Phoenix Thursday. 

The statement stipulates that Arizona volition region each antecedently installed shipping containers and associated equipment, materials, vehicles, and different objects successful the U.S. Border Patrol Yuma Sector, without damaging U.S. earthy resources. To bash so, Arizona volition enactment successful conjunction with officials from the U.S. Forest Service and Customs and Border Protection. 

The statement was reached 1 week aft the Biden medication filed a lawsuit against Ducey connected behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service.

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Shipping containers and conveyance barriers enactment the US and Mexico Border astatine Coronado National Memorial successful Cochise County, Arizona, connected Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona speaks with Fox News astatine the National Governors Association's yearly summertime meeting, connected July 13, 2022, successful Portland, Maine. (Fox News )

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It comes 2 weeks earlier Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs volition presume office. Hobbs has called the shipping instrumentality partition a governmental stunt and a "waste of payer dollars." 

Before the lawsuit, Ducey told national officials that Arizona was acceptable to assistance region the containers. He said they were placed arsenic a impermanent barrier. But helium wanted the national authorities to accidental erstwhile it would capable immoderate remaining gaps successful the imperishable borderline wall, arsenic it announced it would a twelvemonth ago.

Read the latest tribunal filing:

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The national authorities "owes it to Arizonans and each Americans to merchandise a timeline," Ducey wrote past week, responding to quality of the pending national lawsuit.

The enactment placing up to 3,000 containers astatine a outgo of $95 cardinal was astir a 3rd complete, but protesters acrophobic astir its interaction connected the situation held up enactment successful caller days.

Meanwhile, limits connected asylum seekers hoping to participate the U.S. had been acceptable to expire Wednesday earlier conservative-leaning states sought the Supreme Court’s assistance to support them successful place. The Biden medication has asked the tribunal to assistance the Trump-era restrictions, but not earlier Christmas. It’s not wide erstwhile the tribunal mightiness regularisation connected the matter.

General presumption of shipping containers being installed to capable gaps successful the unfinished partition on the United States-Mexico borderline connected Aug. 16, 2022, successful Yuma, Arizona. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.