{"id":2431525,"date":"2025-05-06T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-criticizes-arizona-governors-vetoes-of-immigration-bills-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:19:29","slug":"gop-criticizes-arizona-governors-vetoes-of-immigration-bills-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-criticizes-arizona-governors-vetoes-of-immigration-bills-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP criticizes Arizona governor\u2019s vetoes of immigration bills &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-criticizes-arizona-governors-vetoes-of-immigration-bills-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2431525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gretchen-whitmer-raked-in-over-1-million-from-billionaires-celebrity-donors-while-attacking-her-gop-opponents-special-interests-ties\/\" title=\"Gretchen Whitmer Raked In Over  Million From Billionaires, Celebrity Donors While Attacking Her GOP Opponent\u2019s \u2018Special Interests\u2019 Ties\">faced notable backlash<\/a> from republican lawmakers following her vetoes of two <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >immigration-related bills aimed<\/a> at enhancing public safety. The vetoed bills included Senate Bill 1610, which would have mandated county jails to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by providing information on undocumented immigrants arrested for serious crimes, and house Bill 2099, which was intended to compel state and local officials to enforce federal immigration orders. Governor Hobbs justified her decisions by arguing that they would create undue burdens on local law enforcement and that state officials should not be forced to follow directives from Washington. In response, Republican leaders criticized her actions as prioritizing chaos over public safety and argued that these measures where essential to combat the rising tide of illegal immigration and crime. The Republican Governors Association labeled Hobbs as an &#8220;Open-Borders politician,&#8221; urging for stronger collaboration on border security, while Hobbs insisted that she continues to work on effective border security initiatives and maintain cooperation with federal authorities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">GOP criticizes Arizona governor&rsquo;s vetoes of immigration bills<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2102725\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square)&nbsp;&ndash; Republicans Monday blasted Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs&rsquo; vetoes of bills designed to protect communities from criminal illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The vetoes were two of 23 that Hobbs announced late Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3402396\/house-democrats-discharge-petition-snap-medicaid\/\">House Democrats launch effort to block SNAP and Medicaid changes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3402783\/louisiana-app-store-age-restriction-bill-passes\/\">App store age restriction bill passes without objection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3402557\/trump-carney-canada-not-for-sale\/\">Carney politely tells Trump Canada&#8217;s &#8216;not for sale&#8217; &mdash; Trump retorts &#8216;never say never&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>While Republicans hold majorities in both houses of the Legislature, they don&rsquo;t have enough seats to override the Democratic governor&rsquo;s vetoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3397801\/arizona-michigan-2026-governor-races-start-toss-ups-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>ARIZONA AND MICHIGAN GOVERNOR&rsquo;S RACES START AS TOSS-UPS IN 2026 RATINGS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One vetoed piece of legislation was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azleg.gov\/legtext\/57leg\/1R\/bills\/SB1610S.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Senate Bill 1610<\/a><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;It would have required county jails to, on the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-backed-bail-fund-freed-alleged-domestic-abuser-now-accused-of-murder\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris-Backed Bail Fund Freed Alleged Domestic Abuser Now Accused Of Murder\">provide identifying information<\/a> and access to illegal immigrants arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, aggravated assault on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officer<\/a> or any other offense that results in death or serious injury to another person.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I expect state and local governments to uphold the law and work with the federal government to secure the border,&rdquo; Hobbs wrote in her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/44a5186aac69c13c570fca36a\/files\/5c604c21-8c3c-42b2-0086-1c37a6e6e95f\/SB1610_Veto_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">veto&nbsp;letter<\/a>&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;to Senate President Warren Petersen. &ldquo;However, this places extreme burdens on local law enforcement.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are countering that Hobbs needs to prioritize public safety.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hobbs continues to give her veto stamp more attention than the citizens she&rsquo;s required to protect,&rdquo; said state Sen. John Kavanagh, the Republican who sponsored SB 1610. When he isn&rsquo;t on the Senate floor, Kavanagh is a criminal justice professor at Scottsdale Community College, which is in his district. He also teaches at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People are FED UP with the massive tsunami of dangerous criminals who have entered this country illegally,&rdquo; Kavanagh said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azsenaterepublicans.gov\/post\/hobbs-irresponsible-veto-of-legislation-to-make-arizona-safe-again-advances-chaos-not-sanity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">news&nbsp;release<\/a>&nbsp;Monday<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;With this bill, we were supporting the federal government&rsquo;s deportation efforts by requiring detention facilities to supply inmate information to ICE. I am dismayed by the governor&rsquo;s veto actions, which demonstrate&nbsp;she&rsquo;s choosing chaos over sanity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to rejecting SB 1610, Hobbs on Friday vetoed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azleg.gov\/legtext\/57leg\/1R\/bills\/HB2099P.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House Bill 2099<\/a>, which would have required the governor, the attorney general, and every county, city and town to enforce and cooperate with immigration orders, actions and programs from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>In her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/44a5186aac69c13c570fca36a\/files\/971ddef4-fee9-2b2b-a7d4-8937d96e2e15\/HB2099_veto_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">veto letter<\/a>&nbsp;to House Speaker Steve Montenegro, Hobbs said she was rejecting the legislation because state officials shouldn&rsquo;t be forced to &ldquo;take marching orders from Washington, D.C.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Arizonans, not Washington, D.C. politicians, must decide what&rsquo;s best for Arizona,&rdquo; Hobbs said, repeating her comment from April when she vetoed another bill designed to promote collaboration among local and state law enforcement and U.S. immigration authorities, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thecentersquare.com\/arizona\/article_68790d74-4a88-43dd-a052-270bf471efaa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AZ Ice Act.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two vetoes of immigration legislation on Friday led to sharp criticism Monday from the Republican Governors Association.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hobbs is just another Open-Borders politician, standing in the way of immigration enforcement measures that would make Arizona communities safer and secure our nation&rsquo;s border,&rdquo; said Kollin Crompton, the association&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-americans-killed-by-coronavirus-in-20-days-under-biden-than-died-in-vietnam-war-media-grilled-trump-over-same-milestone\/\" title=\"More Americans Killed By Coronavirus In 20 Days Under Biden Than Died In Vietnam War; Media Grilled Trump Over Same Milestone\">rapid response director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Vetoing these commonsense immigration bills is a slap in the face to Arizonans who have been on the front lines of the illegal immigration crisis plaguing our country,&rdquo; Crompton told The Center Square and other media in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Arizonans deserve a governor who will work with President Donald Trump on border issues, Crompton added.<\/p>\n<p>But in her veto letters on both bills, Hobbs insisted she has supported border security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have worked productively with the federal government to secure our border, stopping fentanyl at our ports of entry through Task Force SAFE, disrupting cartel operations with Operation Desert Guardian, and working across all levels of government to keep communities safe with the Border Coordination Office,&rdquo; the governor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Task Force SAFE stands for Task Force for Stopping Arizona&rsquo;s Fentanyl Epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will continue to work with the federal government on true border security,&rdquo; Hobbs said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2102725\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2102725\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP slams Arizona governor&#8217;s vetoes on immigration bills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2431526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/katie-hobbs-az.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4472,6203,4173,50368,21270],"class_list":["post-2431525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-arizona","tag-gop","tag-governor","tag-immigration-bills","tag-vetoes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/katie-hobbs-az.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431529,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431525\/revisions\/2431529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2431526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}