A bill, sponsored by Arizona State Senator Janae Shamp, intended to “protect Arizona citizens and communities from the crime and security threats associated with the current border invasion caused by the Biden Administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws,” has been transmitted to Governor Katie Hobbs for her signature.
SB 1231, known as the Arizona Border Invasion Act, establishes in Arizona law three border-related crimes with subsequent punishments. Local, county, or state law enforcement officers would be granted authority to arrest any non-US citizens who enter Arizona from anywhere but a lawful entrance point, as well as those who have already been removed from the U.S. or denied entry, and those who have previously been ordered to leave but are refusing to comply.
Arizona State Representative Steve Montenegro, whose family immigrated to the U.S. legally when he was just a small infant, spoke passionately in defense of Shamp’s bill.
“The federal government has turned its back on Arizona,” said Montenegro. “When the federal government refuses to do its job and protect its citizens from foreign invasion, from lawlessness at our border, then we reserve the rights as states to step in and protect our people, protect Arizonans, protect American citizens, protect their families, their children, their livelihoods, their property. This is Arizona and if the federal government refuses to do its job, we step in.”
“Arizonans want and deserve safe communities, but the invasion at the border has led to countless fentanyl overdoses, rapes, murders, human smuggling, child sex trafficking, high-speed chases, subsequent deadly car crashes, and other heinous crimes that are forever transforming our state and the lives of our citizens right before our eyes,” said Shamp.
“Governor Katie Hobbs has declared on numerous occasions her disapproval for the lawlessness caused by the federal government’s open border policies and her desire to take action to protect our citizens. This legislation is exactly what our local law enforcement needs and has asked for to rein in the dangerous criminal activity that’s being thrust upon law-abiding Arizonans by the Biden Administration. The Legislature has done its job. Now is her chance to protect the citizens of Arizona by signing this bill into law, so that we can take the handcuffs off of our law enforcement and allow them to do their job,” concluded Shamp.
Fat chance! You just KNOW hobbs isn’t going to sign off on that. We had a similar bill here in Texas, SB4, and it just got shot down by a liberal federal judge in austin, the san fransisco of Texas. Lower case on purpose.
Thank you AZ State Representative Steve Montenegro for putting forth Bill SB1231.
This is a no brainer!
See Hobbs in person. She can’t even put a complete sentence together.
Excuse me, didn’t Hobbs say she was sending the National Guard to the border sometime end of 2023?
yes in 2025
Stolen elections have consequences. Fraud Hobbs will veto.
I’ll put money on that.
As long as we keep re-electing these clowns back into office nothing is going to change. How about real change by re-electing no one?
Better be enough members with stones to over-ride the veto.
They won’t. Too many RINO’s in office.
watching the national news – the hyperbole of ‘the Russians’ ??? and this with the border.. Summers words ring out ‘changing the world for ever’ the nation it seems is coming unglued is it not? Hobbs – has not choice… this is that time. What exactly would you call this series of events? The meltdown of the nation as we know it?
Political games is all Hobbs (and most politicians) ever does. Any bets she comes up with some lame excuse and vetos the bill?
Where are all those tough cowboy sheriffs with their big hats that were campaigning for Hobbs saying she was not going to play games with the border?
Perhaps hiding behind a skirt?
Oh, do you mean the “soundbite sheriff’? Guessing you know to whom I refer.