Dem Arizona Gov. Hobbs Won’t Say Where Illegals She’s Busing Out of State Are Going

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs She continues to follow her Republican predecessor Doug Ducey’s She says that the program will bus illegal migrants from the state but it will be more. “efficient and humane.” 

Hobbs Telled The Arizona Republic on Tuesday that her administration would focus on ensuring that the program and associated costs were “efficient and humane.”

“We just wanted to make sure that we were addressing this issue and, as I talked about many times in the campaign, in a way that was the best use of taxpayer resources and something that wasn’t a political stunt.”
 
Ducey began busing the illegal migrants out of the state in May, and Hobbs has expanded the program to include an option of chartered air travel, according to an updated contract signed on January 14. Over 3,000 people were bused from the Yuma area to Washington DC during Ducey’s time in office, costing the state over $7 million.

Republican legislators had allocated $15 million to the program last year.

This week, A Yuma official warned that the city is on the brink of collapse due to being overwhelmed by illegal migrants thanks to the Biden administration’s failed immigration policies.

President Joe Biden has created a crisis at the border that is unprecedented. Illegal border crossings reached their peak in December highest level Biden administration reached 250,000 in the last month of 2022, continuing the trend of breaking records every single month.

Hobbs spoke out last week about bussing. “We need to look at that practice and make sure it’s effective, [that] it’s something that supports local communities. If we’re spending the money to bus people, why not just get them to their final destination?”

Hobbs told The Arizona Republic that her actions would be different than the methods of Republican governors Greg Abbott, of Texas, and Ron DeSantis, of Florida, who both have transported migrants to Democratic-run cities to showcase the failure of Biden’s border policies. A revised contract no longer required that illegal immigrants be transported by buses to Washington DC.

Washington, DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowlser declared a state of emergency regarding the busing of migrants to the US capital last year. Eric Adams, Democratic Mayor of New York, declared that there are no illegal immigrants in the city, despite it being a sanctuary city. “sanctuary city” for migrants, and called upon the federal government to address the crisis.

Hobbs added “We’re interested in focusing on the humanitarian aspects of this and just putting people on a bus as a political stunt and sending them to Martha’s Vineyard or wherever they went is not providing any help or any solution to the actual issue.”