BREAKING: Arizona Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs Pulls the Trigger, Orders National Guard to Secure Border
By Becca Lower | 5:14 PM on December 15, 2023
As we reported last Friday, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) expressed her displeasure over the Biden Administration's "failure to secure our border," requesting that the president "reassign National Guard troops" to assist in the reopening of the critical Lukeville Port of Entry:
....Arizona Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs wrote a letter to the federal government demanding they reimburse her state over half a billion dollars for the transport of illegal immigrants, drug interdiction, and law enforcement “due to the federal government's failure to secure our border.”
The governor also informed the federal government that it owes Arizonans "the $512,529,333 federal border inaction has cost us." As my colleague Bob Hoge noted, "Hobbs complained in her letter that the Lukeville crossing is vital to Arizona's health":
"Our ports of entry are essential to our state and our country's economy, and it is vital that they be properly staffed and resourced to continue to fuel economic growth in the state," she said.
It appears Gov. Hobbs didn't get an answer she liked. On Friday, she issued an executive order placing National Guard troops on the U.S.-Mexico border, including at Lukeville, Arizona, according to reporting by Cameron Arcand of The Center Square:
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