Top Arizona The law enforcement officer said in a recent interview that she's not afraid to stand up to President-elect Trump on immigration enforcement.
Democratic Attorney General Chris Mayes told the Guardian that any plans to build deportation centers, which she previously called “concentration camps,” in the Grand Canyon State would be futile.
Mayes defended the Dreamers, recipients of the Obama-era DACA program, saying any federal attempts to send them to their home countries would be a “bright red line for me.”
“I will not tolerate any attempt at this Deport them “Or undermine it,” Mayes said. “I will do everything I can legally to fight (family separation or building deportation camps).”
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President Trump and Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, speak during a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“Not on our land.”
The Dreamer title originates from the DREAM Act – Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors. It was first proposed by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and the late Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in 2001, and was reintroduced in several successive sessions of Congress by Durbin, but never became law.
Recently, it was Proposed in 2023 Written by Durbin and his Republican counterpart in leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Former President Obama borrowed parts of the legislation when he created DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump previously tried to get rid of DACA but was blocked by the Supreme Court in DHS v. University of California.
“I think the Supreme Court will eventually see the merits of protecting them,” Mayes said of the Dreamers.
“We want to give the courts the opportunity to make the right decision here, and we will make very strong arguments on this proposal.”
In previous comments published by the Arizona Mirror, Mayes said the problem with mass deportation proposals from people like Trump and his designated “border czar” Tom Homan is that they could lead to abuses of the system.
Mayes said she wants to remove violent criminals and drug cartel members from the United States
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Chris Mayes (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
In an interview with The Guardian, Mayes praised the almost complete cooperation between border states on the issue of immigration.
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Mayes are “united,” she said, adding that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the only lawman in the border state who is not.
“(We) will fight for due process and for individual rights,” she said of herself, Torrez and Bonta.
Mayes also acknowledged the fentanyl crisis and porous borders, saying Arizonans rightfully want to correct it.
She reportedly said more federal resources should be spent on additional border patrols and going after people associated with gangs, contrary to Trump's idea of using the National Guard to help. Deportation of illegal immigrants.
“(W)hen Arizonans voted for Donald Trump, they didn't vote to rip Arizona And the Constitution of the United States (and) I strongly believe that.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Trump's team and some members of Arizona's Republican congressional delegation for comment on Mayes' interview with The Guardian, but had not received a response by press time.
