For Star subscribers: The nearly 1,000 containers Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has installed along the Cochise County-Mexico border won't stop people from crossing, but the $95 million project has a point.
Tim Steller As you walk or drive along Gov. Doug Ducey’s new container wall on the border, it looks out of place in the wilds of Cochise County, but naggingly familiar.Then it hits: The wall looks like like a long freight train that has lost its wheels, snaking four miles across the borderlands and abandoned in the mud.
A few swift blows with a sledge hammer, or a few quick cuts with a blade or torch, and those pieces of plate metal will be gone. Then the whole purpose of the container wall is defeated. In Cochise County, the container wall serves only as a symbol of “doing something” about the border. Of course, the symbolism could be important for a politician like Ducey.
But Ducey’s political effort comes at a serious cost. There’s the financial burden to Arizona taxpayers — up to $95,141,304 if the whole project is carried out. All for what amounts to a political gesture. Standing up to environmental destructionWe owe a debt of gratitude to the handful of people who have started hanging out at the wall, stopping contractors from continuing their work. A handful of younger activists even stopped work just after midnight Wednesday , standing in front of a bulldozer when the contractors tried to sneak a few hours of work in the middle of the night.
"My son and I are hikers, and we’ve been hiking the Arizona Trail in segments," he said."In early November, we did the segment from Parker Canyon Lake over to Patagonia. As we were driving in, all these fricking semis are flying by us on that little road." Special project: Immigration manipulation This is an investigative project by Arizona Daily Star metro columnist Tim Steller about how government actors in the U.S. and other countries try to mold public opinion on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border. It is funded by a fellowship from the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation. The Star is publishing these investigative columns periodically in 2020.
Government & Politics Star investigation: Border hysteria misrepresents, hurts border towns Steller's take: The border is Douglas, Arizona's main economic advantage, but it becomes a disadvantage when America's loudest voice, and even the local sheriff, proclaim it dangerous.
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