AP Arizona

Ducey blasts Biden administration as border crossings rise

Published December 7, 2021 5:41 PM

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is again demanding that President Joe Biden’s administration do more to secure the U.S.-Mexico border as local officials in Yuma report an increase in asylum-seekers crossing into southwestern Arizona. As Ducey and local officials spoke Tuesday at a lectern on the border near Yuma, nearly a dozen people crossed between a gap in the border fence behind them. Ducey faulted the Biden administration for incrementally reinstating former President Donald Trump’s policy requiring asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico as they await immigration hearings. The administration last week reluctantly announced plans to reinstate the Trump-era policy and agreed to Mexico’s conditions for resuming it.

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