Early construction off border wall separating Arizona and Mexico
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Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday she worries that the closure of the border crossing at Lukeville could spread.
“We’re already seeing a huge impact on tourism and trade,” the governor said, even though the port of entry was shuttered indefinitely just hours earlier. Customs and Border Protection said the move was necessary so that its officers could aid Border Patrol in processing the flood of migrants entering the country at places other than official crossings.
And with no abatement of that flow, that raises the concern that the federal government could decide its officers at other ports of entry elsewhere, who until now have been screening pedestrians and vehicles entering this country, also could need to be redeployed
“I don’t want to find out what could happen,” Hobbs said.
“So, hopefully, we won’t be having that conversation,” the governor continued. “We’re letting the feds know how frustrated we are and how bad this decision is.”
The timing, in some ways, could not have been worse.
