Arizona spans more than 370 miles of the US-Mexico border, and has seen 430,342 migrants detained so far this year. Republican Governor Doug Ducey, who is running for re-election in November, announced he was building a makeshift border wall using 60 shipping containers to close three gaps, using double stacked shipping containers topped with razor wire. The move by Arizona comes without explicit permission on federal land, despite Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas authorizing completion of the project near the Morelos Dam in July. Ducey is using $6 million for the project out of $335 million the Legislature authorized in June to construct virtual or physical fencing along the border with Mexico.

-Arizona spans more than 370 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, and has seen 430,342 migrants detained so far this year in their two sectors

-The Yuma sector of the border is the third-busiest for migrant crossings: only Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio, both in Texas, have seen more arrivals 

-On Friday, the Republican governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, announced he was building a makeshift border wall

-Ducey said that his state had run out of patience with Washington DC and was taking matters into their own hands, with a wall of 60 shipping containers