Ahead of the lifting of Title 42, Governor Hobbs held what was described as an awkward press conference to announce her plans to make the tens of thousands of illegal aliens expected to flood into Arizona welcome.
Hobbs was joined by DPS Director Jeffrey Glover, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, and Representative Mariana Sandoval.
Under Title 42, U.S. agencies were allowed to turn away migrants at the border in order to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Despite admonishments from members of Congress and some state and local officials, President Joe Biden announced Title 42 would end on May 11.
Throngs of aspiring migrants are gathering in Mexico ready to flood into the U.S. on Thursday. The flood of humanity is expected to sap resources that are already strained by the constant flow of aliens crossing into the United States illegally.
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Hobbs says her priorities are on humanitarian and public safety efforts, including the transportation of migrants out of Arizona to their preferred destination.
Hobbs relied on Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos during her campaign to sell herself as a border security advocate. However, Nanos has earned a reputation as an open border supporter.
In fact, when Nanos was running for the Sheriff’s Office position in 2020, he promised to reject the much-needed federal border security funds that were available through Operation Stonegarden. Operation Stonegarden, a federal grant program used for immigration enforcement, currently provides funding for public safety efforts in both Cochise and Pinal counties which, like Santa Cruz and Pima, are key avenues for the cartel’s drug mules.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved nearly $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to support non-profit agencies serving refugees on Monday as well.
While most of the money is going to traditional resettlement agencies, the Board saw fit to award Chicanos Por La Causa $1,879,648 “to provide outreach, intake, transitional housing, legal services, and stabilization support for 40 families of newly arrived refugees.”
In April 2022, Chicanos Por La Causa launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to get more Arizona Latinos to vote in the midterms. The group said at the time that the goal of the $10 million campaign was “to grow the percentage of ballots cast in Arizona by Latinos by at least two points from 2018.”
The group supported Hobbs’ gubernatorial campaign.
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