Arizona’s high regulation enforcement officer mentioned in a current interview she is unafraid to face as much as President-elect Trump on immigration enforcement.
Democratic Legal professional Basic Kris Mayes instructed the U.Okay.’s Guardian any plans to assemble deportation facilities, which she beforehand known as “concentration camps,” within the Grand Canyon State could be a nonstarter.
Mayes defended Dreamers, beneficiaries of the Obama-era DACA program, saying any federal makes an attempt to ship them to their house international locations could be “a bright red line for me.”
“I cannot stand for an try to deport them or undermine them,” Mayes mentioned. “I’ll do every part I can legally to struggle [family separation or construction of deportation camps].
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President Trump and Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, talk during a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities in the Roosevelt Room at the White House March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“Not on our soil.”
The Dreamer moniker originates from the DREAM Act — Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. It was first proposed by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and the late Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in 2001 and has been reintroduced in several succeeding sessions of Congress by Durbin but has never become law.
Most recently, it was proposed in 2023 by Durbin and his Republican counterpart in Senate Judiciary Committee leadership, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Former President Obama borrowed pieces of the legislation when he instituted DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump previously tried to get rid of DACA but was stopped by the Supreme Court in DHS v. University of California.
“I feel the Supreme Court docket will in the end see the deserves of defending them,” Mayes said of Dreamers.
“We need to give the courts the chance to make the correct resolution right here, and we’ll be making very robust arguments on that proposition.”
In previous comments reported by the Arizona Mirror, Mayes said the issue with mass deportation proposals from people like Trump and “border czar”-designate Tom Homan is that they can lead to abuses of the system.
Mayes has said she wants to see violent criminal offenders and drug cartel members removed from the U.S.
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Kris Mayes (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
In the Guardian interview, Mayes credited near-complete border-state cooperation on the matter of immigration.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Mayes are “united,” she said, adding Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the one border state lawman who is not.
“[W]e are going to struggle for due course of and for particular person rights,” she said of herself, Torrez and Bonta.
Mayes also acknowledged the fentanyl crisis and a porous border, saying Arizonans rightly want it rectified.
She reportedly said more federal resources should be spent on additional Border Patrol and prosecutions of cartel-connected people, as opposed to Trump’s idea of using the National Guard to help deport illegal immigrants.
“[W]hen Arizonans voted for Donald Trump, they didn’t vote to shred the Arizona and U.S. Structure [and] I strongly consider that,” she told the Guardian.
Fox News Digital reached out to Team Trump and some members of Arizona’s Republican congressional delegation for comment on Mayes’ Guardian interview but did not receive a response by press time.
