- 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.
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Dem Governor Demands Biden Send Military To The Border, Reimburse State $512M
Dem Governor Demands Biden Send Military To The Border, Reimburse State $512M
YUMA, ARIZONA - MAY 21: A U.S. Border Patrol agent gives instructions to immigrants as they wait in line to be processed after crossing from Mexico on May 21, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. Title 42, the controversial pandemic-era border policy enacted by former President Trump, which cites COVID-19 as the reason to rapidly expel asylum seekers at the U.S. border, was set to officially expire on May 23rd. A federal judge in Louisiana delivered a ruling yesterday blocking the Biden administration from lifting Title 42. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
