Arizona Republicans have been seeking for months now to highly increase immigration restrictions with a bill they have called the Arizona Border Invasion Act. This week, Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, blocked the motion, highlighting the current election-year tensions over border security and immigration.
The Arizona Border Invasion Act would have made crossing the border without authorization a misdemeanor state crime, and a felony for migrants who crossed after being deported or ordered to leave, the New York Times reported. The bill would have also allowed state law enforcement officials to detain migrants, and Arizona judges to order deportations.
