Katie Hobbs Again Vetoes Legislation to Keep Arizona Communities Safe from Criminal Illegal Aliens
- Arizona Senate Republicans
- 1 day ago
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 12, 2025
Katie Hobbs Again Vetoes Legislation to Keep Arizona Communities Safe
from Criminal Illegal Aliens
PHOENIX, ARIZONA— Senate Government Committee Chairman Jake Hoffman is speaking out against Katie Hobbs' irrational veto of legislation that would have protected Arizonans from rampant crime associated with criminal illegal aliens in communities across the state.
"Arizonans have long suffered under the callous and inhumane open-border policies promoted and enforced by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Katie Hobbs," said Chairman Hoffman. "While President Trump and his administration are working around the clock to reverse those harms and protect our vulnerable communities from the perils of criminal illegal aliens, Katie Hobbs continues to obstruct these efforts and endanger the men, women, and children she supposedly serves within the state of Arizona. There is no logical justification for Hobbs' veto on this reasonable bill that helps align local and federal government officials with their critical law enforcement duties, but she remains committed to her radical ideology of open borders and appeasement for cartels. Arizonans will ultimately bear the brunt of Katie Hobbs' leftist partisan antics."
SB 1088, sponsored by Chairman Hoffman, would have required local, county, and state governments, as well as any independent contractors associated with these levels of government, to comply with all federal laws, rules, regulations, and orders pertaining to immigration and deportation. The bill mandated cooperation with U.S. Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Earlier this spring, Hobbs vetoed two other significant border-related proposals sponsored by Senate Republicans. SB 1610, sponsored by Senator Kavanagh, would have required county detention facilities to, on request of ICE, provide the personal identifying information of and access to persons arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, or any other offense that results in death or serious bodily injury to another person. SB 1164, the AZ ICE Act, would have prohibited state government entities from adopting or enforcing any policies that block or restrict law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities to enforce federal immigration laws.
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For more information, contact:
Kim Quintero
Director of Communications | Arizona State Senate Republican Caucus