Category: Arizona

‘Backdoor Deal’ Allows ‘Illegal’ Immigrants to Enter US Legally, Border Patrol Union Leader Says

Illegal immigrants are coached to voluntarily withdraw their asylum claims, return to Mexico, and then return to the United States on humanitarian grounds, according to a U.S. Border Patrol union leader. Manny Bayon, a National Border Patrol Council union spokesman in San Diego, told The Epoch Times on May 26 that migrants who enter the…


Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Vetos Major Election Bills

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed four election-related bills Friday. The rejected bills would have made a wide range of changes to the Copper State’s election laws on the voter registration system, poll site procedures, and mail-in ballots. Hobbs’s moves Friday raise her total number of vetos to 99, a number larger than that of any…


LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (May 24): Analysts Gauge DeSantis’ Appeal in 2024 Race; Arizona: Kari Lake Plans to ‘Paint the State Red’

Political analysts are weighing in as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looks set to make a long-awaited announcement today that he will run for president in 2024. Arizona Republican Kari Lake is vowing to paint Arizona red. She says she is launching a grassroots “ballot-chasing” operation. The goal is to boost Republican turnout in future Arizona…


NTD News Today (May 24): Analysts Gauge DeSantis’ Appeal in 2024 Race; Arizona: Kari Lake Plans to ‘Paint the State Red’

Political analysts are weighing in as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looks set to make a long-awaited announcement today that he will run for president in 2024. Arizona Republican Kari Lake is vowing to paint Arizona red. She says she is launching a grassroots “ballot-chasing” operation. The goal is to boost Republican turnout in future Arizona…


Arizona’s Kari Lake Announces Plans to ‘Paint the State Red,’ Appeal Election Ruling

Arizona Republican Kari Lake is launching a grassroots “ballot-chasing” operation to boost Republican turnout in future Arizona elections and “paint the state red.” “We’re going to start rolling up our sleeves and playing by the same rules [Democrats] play by,” Lake said while surrounded by supporters at a May 23 press conference in Phoenix. “And…


IN-DEPTH: Behind the Wall—A Closer Look at the ‘Yuma Gap’

YUMA, Ariz.—Every night at the “Yuma gap,” where the California, Arizona, and United States-Mexico borders meet along the Colorado River, dozens or hundreds of migrants huddle in the thick brush waiting for their chance to come to America for a better life—a promise Mexican drug cartels have sold them for $500 to $5,000 a head….


NTD News Today (May 23): NAACP Chairman Responds to Criticism Over Florida Travel Advisory; Kari Lake Loses Election Appeal

NAACP Chairman Leon Russell has reacted to criticism of his living in Florida after the association issued a travel advisory warning black Americans to avoid the state. An Arizona judge dismissed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s election case on Monday. He said she failed to prove evidence of significant misconduct in the election. TikTok is suing…


Judge Rules Against Kari Lake in Election Lawsuit, Confirms Katie Hobbs as Arizona Governor

An Arizona judge has dismissed Kari Lake’s latest legal challenge to last year’s gubernatorial contest while “confirming the election” of Democrat Katie Hobbs as Arizona governor. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said in a May 22 ruling obtained by The Epoch Times that Lake’s team failed to provide enough evidence that Maricopa…


States Living Off Depleted Colorado River All Agree to Landmark Water Cuts

California, Arizona, and Nevada have come together in a plan to protect the Colorado River Basin and reduce their water use from the river to save it from current drought conditions over the next three years, the southwestern states announced on Monday. The southwestern states have agreed to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026—a…


Kari Lake Appears Confident as Maricopa Election Trial Ends

Arizona Republican candidate Kari Lake said that Maricopa County did not perform signature verification on hundreds of thousands of early ballots during the November midterms, but the county said that it did. After a three-day trial concluded last week, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson will now issue a decision to determine whether Lake and…