Katie Hobbs, head of Arizona State, accuses Washington of “ refuse to do your job » and not ensuring a proper welcome to the migrants who flock in large numbers to the Mexican border. A new controversy against the Biden administration over immigration, but this time coming from a Democratic governor.
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With our correspondent in the United States, Carrie Nooten
Lukeville, which was a small, rather peaceful cross-border town in Arizona, became in a few months the most used crossing point for illegal immigration from Mexico because Lukeville was one of the cartels’ favorite targets. Their strategy is in fact to create congestion of immigrants at the least used passages until now so that the border guards are overwhelmed and allow illegal migrants to enter more easily.
Washington’s response was to simply close the crossing, but this did not please the governor of Arizona, because the entire economy of the city suffered. “ Once again, the federal government refuses to do its job to secure our border “, declared the governor in her order on Friday.
The Democratic president caught between a rock and a hard place
“ Arizona needs resources and hands to reopen the Lukeville crossing, manage the influx of migrants, and maintain a secure, orderly, and humane border “, she said. “ Despite repeated requests for help, the Biden administration has refused to provide desperately needed resources to the Arizona border », added the governor. And Katie Hobbs therefore announced that she would send the national guard this week to organize and facilitate entries, castigating the Biden administration and its inability to manage the problems on the ground.
The issue of illegal immigration is one of the issues of presidential campaigns in the United States, it is not new. And this order from Katie Hobbs, at the head of a state eyed by Republicans, clearly shows how Joe Biden is caught between a rock and a hard place, between Republicans who demand more rigorous controls and Democrats who demand a system more humane migration.
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(And with AFP)