More: Wildlife advocates say Ducey's new border barrier threatens fragile Arizona habitat Hobbs invited Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to visit the Arizona-Mexico border with her to meet with law enforcement, nonprofits and community leaders to discuss comprehensive immigration solutions in her remarks. Katie Hobbs’ administration did not respond to multiple requests for comment.ĭuring Hobbs' State of the State speech on Monday, she criticized the politicization of immigration and 'political stunts' used to incite media attention. The money was allocated for the “construction, administration, and maintenance of a physical border fence.” The millions of dollars to build, maintain and remove the shipping container barriers comes from the $335 million pot within the Arizona Border Security Fund. In the days after the barrier’s completion, photos and videos of people climbing the containers circulated on social media as hundreds of migrants bypassed the barrier daily near Gadsden to present themselves to Border Patrol agents and request asylum. Additionally, work and transportation costs associated with Nogales-area shipping containers are estimated to ring up to about $20.5 million, per state contracts.ĭucey’s order led to a patchwork barrier of hundreds of hulking metal shipping containers dotting the Arizona-Mexico border, sometimes welded together with odd-shaped pieces of metal.Ī stack of two shipping containers was found toppled near Yuma just one day after the barrier had been completed in August. It will cost roughly $9.3 million to take down the containers near Yuma.

The project was projected to cost $6 million, but ballooned to nearly $13 million as of September, according to Ducey’s office. In August, Ducey began filling border wall gaps near Yuma, where roughly 3,000 feet were plugged with shipping containers. View Gallery: Ducey orders gaps in border wall near Yuma to be filled

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