“Arizonans paid $6,750 per 40-foot container and $5,700 for each of the smaller 20-foot ones, according to the state’s initial contract with supplier AshBritt, Inc., an emergency response contractor that often works for governments after natural disasters. AshBritt ran afoul of federal campaign finance rules in 2018 over a large donation in support of former President Donald Trump while also doing government contract work.”

There’s the punchline I was looking for when I opened the article. It’s all just so boringly predictable.

Purchasing the containers rang up at over $20 million, a slice of the more than $194 million the state has paid to date to put up and take down Ducey’s border wall, according to state purchasing and contract records. The biggest chunk of the money for the ill-fated project covered labor, according to the contracts, which authorized over $200 million for the project.

They could have saved money by hiring immigrants /s ^assuming they didn’t already^