Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday deployed the National Guard to the southern border amid the unprecedented surge in illegal immigrant arrivals under the Biden administration.
Hobbs called a temporary border wall a "Political stunt" and sold off the shipping containers.
While running for governor, Hobbs slammed then-GOP Gov. Doug Ducey's move to use shipping containers as a temporary border wall to plug gaps in the Yuma sector of the frontier.
In January, upon taking office, Hobbs celebrated the Biden's administration's approach to border security, saying "I am encouraged by the White House's recent actions to finally visit the border and to start proposing real steps to begin addressing the problems of the current system."
Her speech came amid President Joe Biden's visit to the southern border, a trip that conservatives criticized as a public relations stunt amid reports that border officials had swept away migrant camps near El Paso, Texas, to present a more organized backdrop to his official visit.
In March of this year, Hobbs announced plans to defund a border security organization run by the state designed to combat international criminal activity.
The budget further reallocated a second line item of $12.2 million that had been assigned to the Border Strike Task Force Local Support and sent it to a new Local Border Support line item "To provide grants to law enforcement in border communities to conduct border-related activities."
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