Sen. Kirsten Cinema Arizona’s governor said in an interview last week that while the Biden administration’s new immigration proposals were “informative,” by the end of the year he was “very concerned that all of this has been going on for a week or so. there is,” he said. title 42.

In an interview with “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan at the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum, Cinema said that both she and Arizona Gov. He said he never received a response. Title 42 expires May 11th.

“Just today I was on the phone with the Cochise County Sheriff — he got a message from the federal Department of Homeland Security about what the flow would be like and what they could expect to be treated. We don’t have any information, how long it takes to process immigration,” Cinema said. “He has no information.”

“Either the administration has that information and chooses not to share it. “Or they don’t have it. It’s even more concerning because how do you prepare for an influx of migrants when you don’t know what to expect?”

Biden administration plans to open new processing center For Latin American immigrants and send 1,500 troops Head to Texas’ southern border to help the Department of Homeland Security try to curb immigration numbers and prepare to receive immigrants arriving there.

Cinema praised those parts of the administrative plan, but said she had asked for “a concrete plan” for the past two years.

“It’s great that the administration is announcing the deployment of 1,500 troops and these new processing centers and such, but these will be out of service by next Friday, but those are good things.” It’s ambitious, it’s not the same as operational, so what I’m asking, and have been doing for two years, is for the administration to come up with a concrete plan.”

Brennan asked Cinema if he had spoken directly to the White House about immigration preparations. Cinema said she had, but her response “wasn’t good enough.”

Cinema also told her about the bill recently introduced Together with North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis, allow the U.S. government to deport immigrants for the next two years — similar to how Title 42 health emergency authorities worked.

However, Cinema called the proposal a “first aid”.

“That bill says Title 42 will be repealed on Thursday, and we know nobody here in Arizona is ready,” Cinema told Brennan. We’ve been preparing for two years, we didn’t, and our state will bear the brunt and immigration will be at stake next week.”

Her bill, she argued, would “give the Biden administration time and space to do its job and allow us lawmakers to actually create a plan that can pass both the House and the Senate.” .

“The thing that bothers me about it, Margaret, is how it looks. They don’t live in border states,” Cinema said. I don’t know you have to drive to Phoenix because they’re released in a town with no bus stop.There’s nowhere for them to go, so they sleep outside on Yuma’s farm.This is us It is a crisis for border communities and migrants.”

“Unfortunately, political parties are thinking about this from a political perspective rather than a human perspective,” she added.

In addition to Cinema and Tirith’s proposition, House Republicans also work As for the new border security bill, which is due to be voted on May 11th, it will almost certainly be dead by the time it reaches the Democratic-controlled Senate.

When asked about the stalemate over the debt ceiling, Cinema said Congress lacked the will to negotiate across the aisle again.

“Both parties are talking without listening to each other,” Cinema said. “We’re in a situation where one party says they’re not negotiating with the other party at all. I think it’s a very dangerous place because it’s not realistic. And it’s not going to happen. right” ”

However, Cinema expressed confidence that the debt ceiling would be lifted “well before” an actual default.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen US may default first“They could make it,” Cinema said, “but it would be a challenge.”