By A.W. Morgan
12/15/2022
The Biden Regime sued Arizona yesterday to stop the state from building and force it to remove a border wall with shipping containers. Set up to fill gaps in the barrier between Yuma and Cochise counties, the containers are sitting on federal land that the state does not have the right or permission to use or occupy, the regime argues. Even if the lawsuit fails, when putative Democrat Governor-elect Katie Hobbs takes office, she will stop construction. The Treason Lobby and its elected enforcers are determined to keep the border open.
For Star subscribers: The Biden administration asks judge to let it remove shipping containers Gov. Doug Ducey has had placed along the Arizona-Mexico border, and to bill Arizona for the costs. https://t.co/aT6rOkVXeK
— Arizona Daily Star (@TucsonStar) December 14, 2022
Arizona “has entered and occupied lands owned by the United States and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, without obtaining the required permits or authorization,” the lawsuit says. The “hundreds of double-stacked multi-ton shipping containers that damage federal lands, threaten public safety, and impede the ability of federal agencies and officials, including law enforcement personnel, to perform their official duties.”
Arizona disputes the claim that the land in question is federal property, so designated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. The Roosevelt Reservation, as the border lands are called, is unconstitutional, Arizona argues in a separate lawsuit [Ducey: Feds have no legal say over shipping-containers border wall, by Howard Fischer, Tucson.com, November 30, 2022].
Aside from arguing that the containers are on federal land, the lawsuit notes that Arizona seized unlawful control of immigration.
In November, Hobbs vowed to remove the containers, but more recently said she was unsure she could do so [Katie Hobbs says she would remove shipping containers if elected, by Adam Klepp, KMYA, November 7, 2022]. The obstacle: The GOP-controlled state legislature approved spending for the wall [Arizona’s GOP-led Legislature votes to spend state money to build border wall, by Howard Fischer, Tucson.com, February 25, 2022]. That money can be used to build a barrier, but not to remove it.
Hobbs will stop construction however [Gov.-elect Hobbs will stop border barrier work but hasn’t decided on removal, by Howard Fischer, Tucson.com, December 10, 2022].
The upshot of the legal war is this: If the federal government abdicates its duty to defend the country from an invasion, and border states can’t protect themselves, property-ownership claims regardless, they will suffer the depredations of diseased, penniless, and criminal illegals as long as Traitor Joe and his gang of Treason Lobbyists are in power.
Then again, given the GOP leadership’s apparent reluctance to impeach Biden, the situation might be hopeless even if the party wins the White House and Capitol Hill in 2024.
The only hope to stop the Great Replacement, then, will be a governor or governors — obviously Republicans — who do the following:
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