Arizona Governor Was Pro-Open Borders Before She Was Against Them
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) has recently taken small steps to battle the border crisis, including mobilizing the state’s National Guard to help Border Patrol, which came as a shock to many considering her past support for open borders policies.
In a recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Hobbs announced that she was “taking action to fix the migrant crisis where the federal government will not.”
“As the next step in Operation SECURE, I just signed an executive order to mobilize Arizona’s National Guard to our Southern Border effective immediately,” the Democrat governor wrote.
This effort was reportedly an attempt to aid law enforcement at the southern border with “fentanyl interdiction” and “human trafficking enforcement.”
However, many have argued that this is just an attempt at placating voters who have grown concerned about the record numbers of illegal aliens flooding into the United States. As conservative news outlet American Greatness asserted, Hobbs’ mobilization of the National Guard is “another ruse by the far Left to improve optics, not fix the problems created by the Democrat Party, and Arizonans will suffer the consequences.”
The outlet went on to point out another supposed effort to fight illegal immigration from Hobbs, noting that she bragged earlier this month about allocating $5 million to halt the flood of illegal aliens into Arizona — until local group iVoteArizona revealed that Hobbs’ Office of Refugee Resettlement reportedly funneled that money to a resettlement group called “Migration & Refugee Services.” The money was then used to fund, feed, clothe and house illegal aliens in Tucson, Arizona.
Meanwhile, Hobbs has taken many obvious actions to promote open borders, including vetoing a Republican bill in June that would have criminalized the use of electronic devices to aid in human trafficking.
As a state senator, Hobbs voted to defund Arizona’s Border Strike Force — a drug law enforcement agency branch of the Department of Public Safety — in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Despite these past votes, Hobbs now demands that the law enforcement agency “increase operations along the State’s southern border to enforce [its] laws.”
While campaigning for governor in 2022, Hobbs attacked then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R) for trying to create a makeshift border barrier with shipping containers and razor wire — claiming that it was “an expensive political stunt.” Despite her claims, Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls later acknowledged that the makeshift barrier did work, stating that it closed off “the most active areas.”
Hobbs has also repeatedly tried to blame Republicans for the border crisis, including former President Donald Trump. When asked during a June 2022 interview if she would at least attempt to close the “massive gap” in the border near Yuma, Hobbs bizarrely stated: “I think if a wall was the solution, then the wall would be done. That’s what Donald Trump ran on and he had the ability to do that when he was president.”
Hobbs received an endorsement from Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), an extremely radical open borders group whose members include illegal aliens. The group — which is funded with millions of dollars from George Soros and the Arabella “dark money” network — aims to defund the police, abolish U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Despite the group’s radical political positions and their tactics — which included one illegal alien group member following Sen. Katie Hobbs (I-AZ) into a bathroom to harass her about legislation — Hobbs welcomed LUCHA radicals at her campaign rally in October 202.
“Getting hyped with . . . Katie Hobbs,” the group wrote in a post on X at the time.
