Hobbs Sparks Outrage For Refusal To Assist With Illegal Alien Arrests

January 24, 2025 ADI Staff Reporter
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Deportation of illegal aliens [Dept. of Defense photo by Senior Airman Devlin Bishop]

On Friday, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced that she is refusing to assist the Trump administration as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conduct arrests of illegal aliens in the state.

“We’re not going to use state resources to go into communities and round up people that aren’t causing harm,” said Hobbs, a Democrat, during a public relations event at a childcare center in Phoenix.

Hobbs’ comments drew swift reaction from Republicans, who support President Trump’s promise to deport illegal aliens who have taken advantage of the broken immigration system. Despite claims that ICE agents will arrest innocent adults and children, the administration has made it clear it is targeting the “worst first” for deportation.

ICE agents have “arrested a number of child sex offenders, as well as gang members and other criminals, among the more than 530 illegal immigrants it caught on another day of the Trump-era mass deportation campaign,” according to FOX News.

“The Biden Administration‘s disastrous policies are dead under President Trump, but Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is openly defying the law and the will of Arizonans by refusing to deport illegal immigrants. This isn’t leadership – it’s reckless lawlessness. The people of Arizona voted overwhelmingly for America First, not open borders and dangerous policies. If Hobbs continues to betray our state, every consequence of her actions fall squarely on her. As your Congressman, I will fight relentlessly to defend Arizona and ensure our state remains safe, while helping President Trump Make America Safe Again,” tweeted Congressman Abe Hamadeh.

Brigitte Gabriel, a Republican pundit tweeted, “Arizona’s far left radical Governor Katie Hobbs says she plans to stop Border Czar Tom Homan from conducting mass deportations from her state. Hobbs should be arrested.”

According to KTAR, Hobbs said Friday she is monitoring the situation but isn’t aware of any confirmed Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Arizona yet.

President Trump signed numerous Executive Orders within hours of taking office to secure the borders, fulfilling his campaign promises to stop the abuse of the asylum and parole laws, and undermined our legal immigration system.

According to FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), Trump issued directives to various government agencies to achieve his secure border policy goals, “such as resuming the Migrant Protection Protocols (commonly referred to as Remain in Mexico); ending abuse of the CBP One mobile application to facilitate illegal aliens’ entry into the country; and terminating categorical parole programs, such as the unlawful CHNV program. The Executive Order also requires the Attorney General and DHS Secretary to take action to comply with the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005, and for the DHS Secretary to verify claimed family relationships. Finally, the Order requires the Attorney General and DHS Secretary to prioritize prosecutions for crimes relating to our borders, including human trafficking and smuggling.”

The White House Twitter account released a photo of illegal aliens boarding a flight to Guatemala.

“U.S. military aircraft carried out two deportation flights to Guatemala on Thursday evening at about the same time that the first ground troops arrived at the southern border as part of the Trump administration’s use of military troops to help Customs and Border Protection personnel,” reported ABC News.

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19 Comments

  1. The Arizona legislature should introduce a bill stripping all public agencies and cities in Arizona from immunity if they willfully protect or resist in the removal of foreign terrorists or criminals and later those criminals go on to injure or kill someone. I know the Hobbit would not sign this, but we can make a point and demostrate we need to send her back to Trollville.

  2. Since she thinks that criminal aliens aren’t a problem maybe she should be charged with obstuction.

  4. She’s “not aware” because she’s not in the loop.
    ICE doesn’t need her permission and she can’t stop it.
    She’s grandstanding to appease the whacko left wing minority of voters who actually voted for this cartel puppet.

    • Absolutely, lock her up for obstruction of justice. Katie Hobb’s lied about what she would do for the people of Arizona and should be locked up for the harm she has done. She is a very corrupt despicable being…

    • Why would any major or person not want to remove illegal criminals. If the law was to arrest white collar crime, it wouldn’t get the last page story. But when we arrest illegal criminals everyone freaks out. Make that make sense KATIE HOBBS

  7. I hope Hobbs tries to interfere. If she does, she’ll be arrested, maybe even become a convicted felon! How would that be for turn about? Her statement that these illegals are not causing any harm is so far from the truth, as evidenced by the records of the ones already rounded up. It would be nice if we had a governor that cared about her legal citizens instead of trying to keep violent criminals out of jail and in our state.

  9. Hey legislature. Try her for treason. Or just let her and the other idiot, the AZAG keep convincing us why the 19th Amendment should be repealed.

    • AND Cane her….maybe like a spanked child, she will repent and behave. (But never be in any government position agaiin.)

  11. And you expect cooperation from Hobbs? WTF, she is a stupid liberal and you know that they love them some ILLEGALS because they are the ones that they thought would keep them in power forever. You know, mail in ballots and all……with the liberals its NEVER about the safety of the country and its citizens its about POWER pure and simple…..the liberals have no clue and found out in November how popular they really are didn’t they?

  12. In addition to arresting those that are here illegally, I’ve heard that there may be ‘collateral arrests’ as well. We can only hope.

  13. Arizona voted for Trump to be President primarily on his immigration policy, yet a liberal governor and attorney general are protecting illegal aliens first rather than the law abiding, tax paying American citizen, strange.

    • Arizonans didn’t get the opportunity to vote for Governor and Attorney General in 2024. They will face the voters in 2026. I can hardly wait.

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