- Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) will travel down to the state’s borderwith Mexico this weekend to visit the border catastrophe in Lukeville, Arizona, following a scathing letter she sent to President Joe Biden for his handling of the situation.
- Hobbs told reporters on Friday that she will visit the southern border with the state’s top National Guard official as she navigates any state action to respond to the mounting situation in southeastern Arizona.
- The announcement came just as Hobbs’s office released a letter she sent Biden on Friday in which she told him to reassign military to the hard-hit area and reimburse Arizona for $512 million spent responding to the border crisis.