Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hawthorne described Ducey’s makeshift border wall, which is made up of double-stacked shipping containers, as a form of “illegal dumping” on December 11, 2022. He announced that he would be taking action against anyone continuing to construct the border wall in his county, per a report by Fox 10 Phoenix.
Back in August, Ducey announced that he was using the containers to plug in gaps at the southern Arizona border “regardless of location,” per a report by The Hill. Hawthorne proclaimed that Ducey doesn’t have the authority to put the containers on federal and national forest land, according to a report by Fox 10 Phoenix.
“It’s not state land, it’s not private land, and the federal government has said this [is] illegal activity,” Hawthorne commented. “So just the way if I saw somebody doing an assault or a homicide or a vehicle theft on public land within my county, I would charge that person with a crime.”
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