Hobbs orders soldiers to help near border but not at Lukeville crossing

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60% : Hobbs also asked the committee headed by Rep. David Livingston to boost direct funding for local law enforcement dealing with migration by nearly $5 million and to allocate $10 million to help build a new state emergency operations center in Phoenix.
58% : "We are stationing members of the National Guard, embedding them with the law enforcement and DPS (Department of Public Safety) along the Southern Arizona border, not at the border but in Southern Arizona communities to assist and augment law enforcement capabilities in Southern Arizona,'' Hobbs' spokesman Christian Slater said.
51% : Hobbs also ordered DPS to boost its presence in Southern Arizona, including near the Lukeville port that U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed indefinitely, starting earlier this month, to all vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
51% : "Once migrants arrive at non-profit humanitarian partners the vast majority continue to travel out of state.''
49% : Soldiers were withdrawnFriday's moves come less than a month after Major Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck, who heads the Guard in Arizona, told lawmakers the soldiers previously stationed in support roles with local law enforcement in border communities weren't needed there -- and had been withdrawn in September.
44% : The administration says migrants spend a few days at non-governmental organizations in Douglas, Nogales, Yuma, Phoenix, Tucson or New Mexico before continuing on to other states or Washington, D.C."These funds are being used to transport asylum seekers who have been legally cleared by border patrol to in-state and out of state non-profit humanitarian partners who use separate funds to assist travelers to their final destinations,'' said Muehlenbeck.
43% : But the agency also told lawmakers in a memo that it did not know how many actually completed travel out of state, although "it is believed'' that the majority of asylum seekers leave Arizona.
38% : "But sending them on buses to Tucson and Phoenix where maybe 25% of them end up on a bus out of state is not acceptable,'' he continued.
31% : "That's just moving a problem from one county to the next county, from one city to the next city, and not solving anything.''Muehlenbeck wrote to Livingston and Sen. John Kavanagh that the $23 million would help local law enforcement and local communities deal with increased migration -- and said they've been pleading for the help.

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