AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Arizona AG Kris Mayes privately coordinated with 'Abolish ICE' group to oppose border security measure voters overwhelmingly backed
Public records reveal Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes's office worked behind the scenes with an activist group that has called to abolish ICE and defund police, even as more than 60 percent of Arizona voters backed the very border security measure she fought. A lobbyist for Living United for Change in Arizona, known as LUCHA, […] The post Arizona AG Kris Mayes privately coordinated with 'Abolish ICE' group to oppose border security measure voters overwhelmingly backed appeared first on American Almanac .
Public records reveal Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes's office worked behind the scenes with an activist group that has called to abolish ICE and defund police, even as more than 60 percent of Arizona voters backed the very border security measure she fought. A lobbyist for Living United for Change in Arizona, known as LUCHA, emailed Mayes's office on May 6, 2024, asking the attorney general to publicly oppose the Secure the Border Act, a Republican-backed bill that would require immigration status verification for certain public benefits and let state and local law enforcement arrest immigrants suspected of entering Arizona illegally. Three days later, Mayes released a statement doing exactly that, calling the bill "a political…Open