Arizona stacking cargo containers to block border in Yuma, Ducey says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Data from CBP continues to show that drugs largely come through the nation's ports, smuggled in semi-tractor trailers and personal automobiles, or strapped to people's bodies as they walk across.
60% : Encounter numbers have been driven up by the implementation of Title 42 -- a CDC order that allows CBP to rapidly remove people if they've traveled through a country with a high number of COVID-19 cases.
57% : Workers began placing containers near the thousand-foot gap in the border wall on Friday morning, and officials said the project will be completed by the weekend.
56% : " If people request asylum, they are released from CBP custody and must go through the U.S. immigration system.
54% : Unlike most of the rest of the border, only a few people were immediately expelled under Title 42 "CBP continues to enforce U.S. immigration law and apply consequences to those without a legal basis to remain in the U.S.," Magnus said.
53% : For example, in Nogales, Ariz., CBP used containers to block vehicle lanes to keep people from attempting to run through the border crossing point into the U.S.
53% : Remain in Mexico required people requesting asylum to stay south of the border while their applications for protection wind through the U.S. immigration system.
52% : "It's our responsibility to protect our citizens and law enforcement from this unprecedented crisis.
49% : "CBP has just received this information and is not prepared to comment at this time," said John Mennell, a CBP spokesman.
49% : The container wall will plug gaps near the Morelos Dam, including one section north of the dam along the Colorado River near Yuma Levee Road and West 8th Street, while another section will fill a gap about 10 miles south of the dam near Main Street and Sality Canal Road near Gadsden, Ariz. CBP has deployed cargo containers as barriers in the past, including using the metal boxes to buttress the defense of border crossings.
46% : In recent months, the gaps have made the Yuma Sector one of the busiest corridor in Arizona, where people cross the U.S.-Mexico border and immediately turn themselves over to Border Patrol agents to request asylum under U.S. law.
45% : Washington must send a clear message that this is not the way to immigrate to our country." "Our border communities are being used as the entryway to the United States, overwhelming law enforcement, hospitals, nonprofits and residents," Ducey said.
43% : DHS officials have said the program suffers from "endemic flaws." Created in December 2018 as one of a series of policies designed to keep people from coming to the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum under U.S. law, Remain in Mexico -- more formally known by the euphemistic title "Migrant Protection Protocols" -- was criticized by immigration advocates who argued the program subjects families and individuals to "squalid conditions" where they are under threat of rape, kidnapping, extortion and even murder.
40% : The announcement comes just weeks after the Biden administration said it would close four gaps in the border wall left by the construction during the Trump administration.
38% : Most people in Yuma were immediately processed under Title 8 -- either because they are seeking asylum in the U.S., or they face some form of prosecution under U.S. law including illegal entry or illegal reentry.
24% : The Biden administration's lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty.
5% : Ducey called the Biden administration's decision to end Remain in Mexico "the latest in a series of misguided decisions related to border security by the federal government." "The White House continues to demonstrate failed border policies, all but encouraging transnational criminal organizations to import illegal drugs across an unrestricted southern border in Arizona," Ducey said.

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