Ducey to send Arizona National Guard to border, declares an emergency in multiple counties

[Jose Garcia]

Source: KOLD-TV

TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday, April 20, the state will set aside up to $25 million to deploy National Guard troops to the southern border to help support local law enforcement.

He also declared a state of emergency in Cochise, Pima, Maricopa, Yuma, Pinal and Santa Cruz counties in response to an influx of migrants seeking asylum in Arizona.

The state is set to send up to 250 guardsmen to border communities to help with medical operations at detention centers, install and maintain border cameras, collect data from public safety cameras and analyze trends in known smuggling corridors, according to a news release from the governor’s office.

“The situation in our border communities is just as bad — if not worse — than the coverage we’ve been seeing,” the governor wrote in a statement. “It’s become evidently clear that Arizona needs the National Guard, and the White House is aware of that. Yet, to this day, there has been no action from this administration, and it doesn’t look like they are going to act any time soon. If this administration isn’t going to do anything, then we will.”

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. Ducey needs to distract from his ending mask requirements at schools

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. My school district is on Native American reservation and the tribal council told Ducey he has

no authority there. The mask mandate on the Reservation is still active and heavily enforced.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

15. I don't know about the rural counties, but in Maricopa and Pinal almost all refused

I believe there was one Queen Creek district that lifted the mandate. All the big ones kept it in place.

[rurallib]

29. daughter called yesterday about that. She was livid!

Plus Ducey must do his part to show up Biden no matter how ridiculous.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Phew we need a State of Emergency here in Mesa ... I can't even pull out of my driveway what with

the caravans of lowered Monte Carlos with dingo balls spelling out GUATEMALA in the rear window, clogging up all the roads of my subdivision here.



in case it's needed

[Coventina]

4. Yes, thank goodness for Ducey! My morning commute is clogged with taco trucks

on every corner!

Fortunately, the breakfast burritos are delicious!!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Well, just stay safe out there, okay? Hopefully this dire state emergency will be over shortly ...

[AZ8theist]

7. SAME HERE LEBO!!!

Can't even walk the dog without stepping over the headless bodies EVERYWHERE killed by the drug gangs in my lily white Mormon neighborhood!!!!

The situation is OUT OF CONTROL!!!!

BIDENS OPEN DOOR POLICY IS DESTROYING THE CITY OF MESA!!!

Doug DOUCHBAG is a fucking ASSHOLE. He's not even Trump-light...What a fucking moron....

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. We need one here in Tucson too.

Ducey is a reason I am running for Lege.

[JusticeForAll]

20. Y'all aren't taking this seriously enough!!

I heard someone speaking Spanish at my grocery store in Tempe! (gasp!)

We are being overrun. (clutching American flag closely)

[Hugh_Lebowski]

21. Dude if I even want to pull out of my driveway ...

I have to buy Chiclets and pay the Mariachi Band to play me something while my car windows get washed.

And these are just the people who've set up lean-to's in my front yard.

Tellin' ya, it's crazy, man

[PatSeg]

23. Oh my, some of these are hilarious!

[Jose Garcia]

30. Apparently Senator Mark Kelly has been tricked into supporting this:

https://kyma.com/news/immigration/2021/04/20/sen-mark-kelly-speaks-out-in-support-of-ducey-executive-order/

[PortTack]

3. "Biden adm has done nothing." He lies better than his once idiot king

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. All he has is pandering.

Governor Ice Cream Flinger is the dumbest governor we've had since Fyfe Symington.

[PortTack]

25. Ha! How true

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Just seceed already. Or at least try so we can arrest you for treason. Caravans are coming Oh My.

[Kali]

8. Haven't seen any activity in my location in Cochisel County

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. I live in Vail outside of Tucson. . .I haven't here either

My father works a lot in Benson. . .he hasn't either.

My students live on the Tohono O'dham Nation. . .they haven't either.

[Kali]

16. I thought you were in Sells.

vail isn't in LD4 is it? don't you have to live in the district?

[AZLD4Candidate]

19. I'm with family until June. I teach in Sells.

I will live in the teacher housing behind IOIES starting in June and continue teaching at BMSHS.

I just had to come back from overseas because of COVID19 and instead of moving out there immediately, I am taking care of my parents who are recovering from major illnesses (mom with a stroke, Dad with kidney disease). Now that they are back to almost full strength, I will head out to the apartment I reserved.

[Kali]

24. I know people that live in Benson and work in Tucson

and the other way round, but Vail to Sells would be a hell of a commute,

[AZLD4Candidate]

27. Tucson to Sells is bad enough. No, I could stay out here instead of there

and do family things since I got back overseas because The Nation is 100% virtually and has completely locked down and shut down everything over COVID19. My school had a full day in service and my principal did it from San Diego and my department chair did it on a plane going to South Carolina.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. The big lies continue to drop with predictable frequency...And MSM hasn't yet figured out what to do

Headlines and press releases are all we hear on this subject. No context provided.

Where are the satellite photos of huge traffic jams at border crossings, or infrared traces, or interviews with affected townsfolk? I guess genuine research or background information isn't part of the budget at MSM news orgs?

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. I go over the border to Nogales all the time.

I haven't seen anything there, nor in Sasabe.

How are all Arizonans faring in Douglas and out near Somerton and in Lukeville.

[C Moon]

17. I smell a trump.

[Cryptoad]

22. smells like taint,,,

[DFW]

18. Lemme guess.......

A coyote snuck across the border and actually CAUGHT a roadrunner.

Am I close?

[PortTack]

26. Yup!

[bdamomma]

28. Well

the last administration was going to stop the migrants by building a wall, I guess that did not work. and Mexico was going to pay for it.

[Martin68]

31. Political kabuki. RepubliQan hysteria.

And fake news: "The situation in our border communities is just as bad — if not worse — than the coverage we’ve been seeing,” the governor wrote in a statement. “It’s become evidently clear that Arizona needs the National Guard..."