Gov. Katie Hobbs has changed her mind on the migrant crisis at Arizona's southern border. She recently reversed an earlier decision against sending in the National Guard, sending more than 200 troops to the Tucson area and committing up to $5 million in Arizona taxpayer money to send troops to the Lukeville Port of Entry. .
Hobbs too It called on the federal government to reimburse Arizona $512.5 million for “immigration transportation, drug interdiction, and law enforcement” costs incurred under the Biden administration. She also pledged to “regularly” seek reimbursement from the federal government to help ease Arizona's border crisis.
What was the impetus for these chiefs, who had been passive until now, to start taking action one after another? Finally, direct spending on Arizona can no longer be ignored. These are impacting Arizona's budget and future financial viability.
For Mr. Hobbs and many other Democratic mayors and governors, compassion for the plight of illegal immigrants was a positive image, as long as the costs were borne elsewhere. Hundreds of sanctuary cities were formed. Mayors in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities took pleasure in ensuring their cities were open and caring places.
Like Biden himself, they welcomed illegal immigrants into our country. True, they had heard reports of complaints from border communities suffering from ever-growing hordes of impoverished illegal immigrants, but most of them were just red-state conservatives anyway.
However, when the influx of tourists became overwhelming and it had to be exported across the country, views changed. Too late, Hobbes and others realized that growth was out of control and that fiscal demands were truly unsustainable. Their pleas for help from the federal government were ignored.
It's good that the governor acknowledged there is a problem; She waved in response. In fact, we don't need any more money or troops. We must be determined to enforce the laws that prevent unauthorized entry into our country.
Instead, America is advertising to the world that it welcomes all immigrants and that those who make it here will be admitted in an elaborate scheme to seek asylum. They will be provided with transportation to the country, food, shelter, medical care, education and social services.
Then we are shocked when millions of people pour in from the lower classes of the Third World. Hobbs unwittingly admitted he made a mistake, claiming the extra funds were needed to “manage the influx of immigrants.” New funds flowing into the border have been used not to stem the flow but to facilitate the process of admitting further invaders.
There is a dire need for a policy that only admits those who are legally eligible for admission and rejects the rest. It's not that complicated or expensive. It will save money and probably save our country's future.
The downside of unrestricted immigration far exceeds the costs local governments incur in meeting the short-term needs of immigrants. An estimated 15 million to 20 million people have entered our country illegally this century, and 6.6 million were processed during the three years of the Biden administration alone.
Most of these people are poorly educated and untrained people and are unlikely to become self-sufficient soon. Most are harmless to us, but there are also terrorists, criminals, and foreign agents. Unlike other policy areas, immigration mistakes cannot be undone. Our new residents never plan on leaving.
America faces some difficult challenges. Most of our schools fail to improve the education of disadvantaged children. Public spending and overwhelming debt burdens cast a cloud over our future. A wave of illegal activity and organized criminal activity plagues us. The influence of social theory inspired by Marxism threatens to push once liberal Americans into enclaves of contested identities.
Simply put, America is in no position to spend any more money or have more problems, much less respond to a tsunami of 20 million illegal immigrants that will make each person worse off.
America was founded not by “blood and soil” but by the values ​​on which our nation was founded: equality for all under the law, representative government, the rule of law, limited government, and individual rights. It is famously a country defined by Tens of millions of illegal immigrants who don't know or love America will forever change who we are and what America means to the world.
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This article Published in free news in arizona Reprinted with permission.
Dr. Thomas Patterson, former president of the Goldwater Institute, is a retired emergency medicine physician. He served in the Arizona State Senate for 10 years in the 1990s and served as Majority Leader from 1993 to 1996. He is the author of Arizona's charter school bill.
