YUMA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — After a set of shipping containers toppled over at the Arizona-Mexico border last week, Gov. Doug Ducey announced on Wednesday that the border wall gaps are completely closed. The governor’s office says over 3,800 feet of open border near Yuma has been filled with 130 shipping containers, double-stacked and secured together.
“Five wide open gaps in the border wall near Yuma neighborhoods and businesses are now closed off. In just 11 days, Arizona did the job the federal government has failed to do — and we showed them just how quickly and efficiently the border can be made more secure – if you want to,” Ducey said in a statement.
Last week, Univision journalist Claudia Ramos reported a set of the shipping containers toppled over a day after Ducey announced the first gap was complete. C.J. Karamargin, with the governor’s office, said they believed it wasn’t weather that caused the containers to fall — rather people knocking them over instead. Karamargin added the containers weighed over 8,000 pounds, and it was “highly unlikely” they were blown over.
The containers are double-stacked, linked together and welded shut along the border wall.
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