Arizona to Pay $2.1 Million to Biden Admin Over Makeshift Border Wall

The funds to be used by the Forest Service to address damage done by shipping container barrier.

A border wall constructed of shipping containers and topped with concertina wire built on federal land, as directed by former Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, stands along the U.S.–Mexico border in the Coronado National Forest near Hereford, Ariz., on Dec. 20, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Arizona has agreed to pay the Biden administration $2.1 million as part of a settlement for a lawsuit that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed against the state over a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Arizona–Mexico border.

The state was given a bill of $2.1 million on Aug. 22 by the U.S. Forest Service, said Judy Kioski, a spokeswoman for Arizona’s Division of Emergency Management, according to an Aug. 30 report by the Arizona Republic.