The main city, Tucson, used to be a declared sanctuary city. But, state law ended that. And a recent ballot initiative had 71% saying they do not want to be a sanctuary city. Would the city council have listened? Not sure, but, they and county want money to deal with the illegals that are there thanks to Biden’s big border opening
Pima County suing Feds for $12 million in migrant care money
Pima County says the Federal government owes it more than $12 million for migrant care. It’s now suing to try to get that money.
Pima County is joining with the cities of Chicago and Denver. The suits claim FEMA was wrong to withhold reimbursement for money the county and those cities spent to shelter migrants and keep them off the streets.
Pima County says that over about five years, it spent more than $52 million in Federal grants to shelter about half a million migrants, but only for a few days at a time, as they prepared to move to other locations and pursue asylum claims.
The money came from FEMA shelter grants approved by Congress.
In February, FEMA said it might withhold reimbursement for grants approved in the last months of the Biden Administration. For Pima County that would be more than five-point-seven million dollars, plus another almost three-point-seven million it has not put in for reimbursement yet.
Well, ask Biden for the money. He’s surely made enough via graft in office. Reach out to all those Democrats who support unfettered illegal immigration (as long as the illegals/migrants aren’t in their own neighborhoods). They could all donate to a Go Fund Me, right?
Pima County and the cities say since Congress approved the money, executive branch agencies have no authority to hold back funds.
Congress may have allocated money via FEMA, but, the allocation didn’t specify WHERE it had to be spent. Trump could send it to lots of small towns which vote GOP who were stuck with all the illegals/migrants.
OMG!! 12 millions is so much money
Pima County yearly budget is north of 2 trillion
Migrants are like 0.5% of the yearly budget
About 70% of the undocumented living in AZ have lived there more than 10 years
Math are hard. “Pima County yearly budget is north of 2 trillion.”
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Which means that the law hasn’t been enforced stringently enough for the past ten years and more. As far as I am aware, there is no statute of limitations on illegal border crossings.
LOL! Democratic city sues Feds over Democratic open borders policies. They built a roost, and are now wholly upset that the chickens have come home.
They don’t want the policy to end, they just want their share of the money. It’s how democrats get rich.
Although Donald Trump carried Arizona 1,770,242 (52.22%) to 1,582,860 (46.69%), Kamala Harris Emhoff won Pima County by a wide margin, 292,450 (56.78%) to 214,669 (41.68%).
In 2020, a slight plurality of Arizonans got stupid, and the dummkopf from Delaware carried the state 1,672,143 (49.36%) to 1,661,686 (49.06%), and Pima County 304,981 (58.41%) to 207,758 (39.79%). They voted for the clown that opened the border, and, four years later, voted to continue the same policies that flooded the state with illegals. They got exactly that for which they voted, and subsequently approved, and now they’re just all kinds of upset that it’s costing them money!
I’m not sure just how much sympathy they deserve.
1,770,242 Arizonans got brutatlly stupid in 2024 voting for trump!!
Mr trump has guaranteed a massive turnout for the next midterm where the GOPhers will lose the House and possibly even the Senate. Will GOPhers have the time to rig the 2028 elections? They’re working hard to keep blacks, women, hispanics, non-christians and the poor from voting.
Like Mr Dana, the GOP prefers that white christian men vote.
The Dems are working overtime to get new voters registered and to fight the efforts on the far-right to suppress voters. Did you know there are millions of American women whose last names do not match their birth certificates!!! They are presenting false IDs at the polls!!!