Ducey to station troops on the border

April 20, 2021 Leave a comment

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Declaring an emergency, Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he is going to put 250 Arizona National Guard soldiers along the southern border.

Ducey says he’s prepared to send Guard to border

April 8, 2021 Leave a comment

Brig. Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck discusses her promotion by Gov. Doug Ducey to the state's adjutant general, also making her the top officer in the Arizona National Guard. The appointment occurred as the governor said he is weighing the sending Guard soldiers to the border to deal with the flow of migrants. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

Taking a new slap at the Biden administration, Gov. Doug Ducey said Thursday he is prepared to send the Arizona National Guard to the border – even if it means at state expense.

Ducey accuses Biden of creating border crisis

March 20, 2021 3 Comments

Set up in front of the border fence in Douglas, Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday blames the Biden administration for the crisis along the border. With him is Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, who flew in for the event and a 20-minute border helicopter tour. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

Surrounded by Republican politicians, Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday insisted that everything that is now going wrong on the border is the fault of President Biden, his administration and the Democratic Congress.

Border became more secure in the last four years

October 30, 2020 Leave a comment

In this June 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall in San Luis, Ariz. During his 2016 primary run, Trump sought to mark his ground as a hard-line immigration enforcer who would build “a great, great wall on our southern border.” Nearly four years later, Trump still has work to do completing his wall and much that has been completed has been paid by U.S. taxpayers despite promises otherwise. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

When Democratic candidates for President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stood on stage earlier this year and pledged to give illegal immigrants free healthcare and a free college education, political pundits left and right agreed that illegal immigration would certainly ...

Illegal immigration cost far too great for Arizona

October 27, 2020 Leave a comment

Turning a blind eye to illegal immigration doesn’t come cheap, and Arizona taxpayers have been forced to subsidize our broken immigration system for far too long. For the sake of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens, we must remain committed to securing the border and not allow our recent successes to lull us into a false sense of complacency.

Ducey hints slow-down at ports of entry temporary

December 3, 2019 2 Comments

FILE - This June 1, 2009, file photo, shows vehicles waiting to enter the U.S. through The Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in downtown Nogales, Ariz. For months, the U.S. has barred asylum seekers from approaching official crossings to file a claim. Now, some are rushing the ports by running through vehicle lanes to evade the process used to officially request asylum. That is causing massive delays at crossings in Arizona as U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have barricaded lanes used by cars to legally enter the U.S. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP, File)

Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday brushed aside concerns that a slowdown at border crossings into Arizona engineered by federal officials will affect visitors to Arizona – and supplies for a new auto manufacturing plant here.

Ducey urges Tucson to reject sanctuary city ballot measure

August 23, 2019 3 Comments

Gov. Doug Ducey has added his voice to those urging Tucson residents to reject a ballot measure to declare the community a ``sanctuary city.''

Sonora governor decries talk of tariffs, border closures

June 29, 2019 Leave a comment

Sonora Gov. Claudia Pavlovich discusses the impact of talk of tariffs and border closures have on the area economy Friday with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey at the annual meeting of the Arizona-Mexico Commission. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

Sonora Gov. Claudia Pavlovich warned Friday that the talk about tariffs and border closures coming from Washington is endangering the economy of both her state and Arizona.

Democrats in Congress are not serious about ending border crisis

June 27, 2019 3 Comments

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro looks on near a border wall that separates the cities of Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, in San Diego. Hundreds of thousands of people have been arriving at the border in recent months, many of them families fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. Once they reach the border, they can take different paths to try to get into the U.S. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

We are on an unsustainable path that we cannot continue. I will be introducing legislation in the coming weeks to address the border crisis and fix the loopholes in our immigration laws. I hope my Democrat colleagues will join me in ending this crisis once and for all.

Ducey: Immigration discussion needs to shift to Mexico’s southern border

April 23, 2019 Leave a comment

Gov. Doug Ducey, right, answers questions from former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl Tuesday about his views on foreign relations. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday the United States should pressure Mexico to seal its own southern border to keep migrants from Central America from reaching our borders.

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