NOGALES, Ariz. (KVOA) – Since President Joe Biden took workplace, he has not been shy about his opinions on the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Again in January, President Biden terminated the emergency proclamation that was enacted by former President Donald Trump that allowed federal funds for border wall development.
The border wall has value taxpayers billions of {dollars}. However now with a pause in development, many wish to know what’s subsequent?
Alongside steep rugged terrain in Nogales, new border wall stretches for miles till properly, it does not.
This development website is at present a ghost city with tens of millions of {dollars} price of heavy equipment sitting in park.
Simply a number of miles west of the DeConcini Port of Entry, guests can see development of the border wall has utterly halted, with solely mountainous terrain dividing Mexico from the U.S.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway stated even with the prevailing border wall in his county, drug traffickers discover a approach to get in.
“Then there’s the drug business – the drug commerce,” Hathaway stated. “You already know so long as we nonetheless have shoppers in america, they will nonetheless be bringing the medication in.”
Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino says many of the development of the brand new border wall was performed inside Santa Cruz County which has, in flip, helped give border patrol extra entry to rugged terrain alongside the southern border.
“I do know they’ve a whole lot of entry roads, which they didn’t have previously,” Garino stated. “To have the ability to be shut and accessible to the realm, they’d get any indication of one thing coming throughout. So it is one thing that we will really feel very safe right here within the metropolis of Nogales.”
Whereas this heavy gear collects mud and the way forward for the border wall stays unsure, leaders in Santa Cruz County say they consider their city is protected.
