A lawsuit has prompted the removal of the makeshift wall.

Back in August, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey ordered the local Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fill in the gaps of the state’s border with Mexico with shipping containers, welding them together and topping them with barbed wire to create a makeshift border wall. While Ducey had the wall built with an executive order, however, he did not have the permits or authorization necessary to have it constructed, making its presence along the border illegal.

This is why, earlier this month, the federal government sued the Arizona state government over the wall and its illegal construction. After a period of deliberation, a new filing has revealed that Arizona has acquiesced with the government’s demands, and will begin dismantling the wall next month.

“By January 4, 2023, to the extent feasible and so as not to cause damage to United States’ lands, properties, and natural resources, Arizona will remove all previously installed shipping containers and associated equipment, materials, vehicles, and other objects from the United States’ properties in the U.S. Border Patrol Yuma Sector, including from lands over which the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation holds an easement on the Cocopah Indian Tribe’s West Reservation,” the filing says.

Governor Ducey’s office has not commented on the filing at the time of writing.