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The top of Arizona The law enforcement agent said in a recent interview that he is not afraid to stand up to President-elect Trump on immigration enforcement.
Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes told the U.K. Guardian that any plan to build deportation centers, which she previously called “concentration camps,” in the Grand Canyon state would be a nonstarter.
Mayes defended Dreamers, beneficiaries of the Obama-era DACA program, saying any federal attempt to send them to their home countries would be “a bright red line for me.”
“I will not stand for any attempt deport them or undermine them,” Mayes said. “I will do everything I can legally to fight (family separation or building deportation camps).
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President Trump and Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan speak during a panel discussion on sanctuary cities in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“Not on our soil.”
The Dreamer nickname comes 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 has been reintroduced by Durbin in several successive sessions of Congress, but has never become in law
More recently, it was proposed in 2023 by Durbin and his Republican counterpart in the leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Former President Obama borrowed bits of the legislation when he instituted DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump previously tried to get rid of DACA, but the Supreme Court had stopped him in DHS v. University of California.
“I think the Supreme Court will eventually see the merits of protecting them,” Mayes said of Dreamers.
“We want to give the courts an opportunity to make the right decision here, and we will make very strong arguments on this proposal.”
In earlier comments reported by the Arizona Mirror, Mayes said the problem with mass deportation proposals from the likes of Trump and designated “border czar” Tom Homan is that they could lead to abuse of the system.
Mayes has said he wants violent criminals and drug cartel members removed from the U.S.
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Chris Mayes (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
In the Guardian interview, Mayes credited almost complete cooperation between the border state on immigration.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Mayes are “united,” he said, adding that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the only prosecutor in the border state that 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 a porous border, saying Arizonans want it fixed.
He reportedly said more federal resources should be spent on additional border patrols and prosecutions of people linked to cartels, as opposed to Trump’s idea of using the National Guard to help. deport illegal immigrants.
“When Arizonans voted for Donald Trump, they didn’t vote to grind Arizona and the US Constitution (and) I strongly believe that,” he told the Guardian.
Fox News Digital reached out to Team Trump and some members of Arizona’s Republican congressional delegation for comment on Mayes’ Guardian interview, but did not hear back by press time.
