Arizona’s top law enforcement official said in a recent interview. This said she is not afraid to stand up to President-elect Trump on immigration enforcement.
Democratic Attorney General Chris Mayes told Britain’s Governor that plans to build a deportation center, which she previously called a “concentration camp,” in the Grand Canyon state would be a non-starter project. plant
Mayes defends Dreamers who were beneficiaries of the Obama-era DACA program, said federal efforts to repatriate them to their home countries are “a bright red line for me.”
“I will not stand for any attempt to deport them or undermine them,” Mayes said. “I will do everything I can legally to fight. (Family separation or creation of deportation camps)
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President Trump and Thomas Homan, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Talk during the Roundtable on Sanctuary City Enforcement in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“Not on our soil.”
The nickname Dreamer comes from the DREAM Act — Development, Relief. and education for minors from foreign countries It was first proposed by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in 2001, and has been reintroduced in several successful congressional sessions by Durbin, but never became popular. It’s the law.
The latest is now. Proposed in 2023 By Durbin and fellow Republican in Senate Judiciary Committee leadership, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Former President Obama borrowed part of the law when he established DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump previously tried to eliminate DACA but was blocked by the Supreme Court in DHS v. University of California.
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“I think the Supreme Court will finally see the merit of protecting them,” Mayes said of Dreamers.
“We want to give the court the opportunity to make the right decision here. And we will provide strong arguments against that proposal.”
In comments previously reported by the Arizona Mirror, Mayes said the problem with mass deportation proposals from people like Trump and Tom Homan, who have been appointed “border czars,” is that they could lead to System abuse is possible.
Mayes said she wants to see violent criminal offenders and drug cartel members removed from the United States.
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Chris Mayes (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
In an interview with the Guardian, Mayes credited near-complete cooperation between border states on immigration.
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Mayes “are one and the same,” she said, adding that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the only border state lawyer who is not.
“(We will) fight for the legal process and for individual rights,” she said of herself, Torrez and Bonta.
Mayes also acknowledged the fentanyl crisis and the porous border. It said that Arizonans want it properly fixed.
Reportedly, she said she should use more federal resources on additional border patrols and prosecuting those linked to the cartels. That contrasts with Trump’s idea of using the National Guard to help deport illegal immigrants.
“When Arizonans voted for Donald Trump, they did not vote to destroy the Constitution of Arizona and the United States (and) I believe that,” she told the Guardian.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump team and some members of Arizona’s Republican congressional delegation for comment on Mayes’ Guardian interview, but did not hear back by press time.
