Arizona container border wall suit ends with US$2.1m settlement
TWO federal lawsuits over former Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey's decision to place containers along the Mexico border have been dismissed after the incoming Democratic administration said it would pay the US Forest Service US$2.1 million to repair environmental damage, reported the Associated Press.
The dismissal of the cases in US District Court in Phoenix ends the fight over the double-stacked containers that were placed as a border wall last year.
Mr Ducey sued in US District Court seeking to stop the federal government from preventing placement of the containers.
The US Department of Justice then sued Mr Ducey and other Arizona officials, saying the wall interfered with federal control of the land along the international boundary. Many of the 3,000 containers were placed in the Yuma area of western Arizona and in the remote San Rafael Valley in southeastern Cochise County.
Mr Ducey agreed in December to remove the container wall shortly before his term ended, saying it had been envisioned only as a temporary measure.
source:SchedNet
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