Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is demanding the federal government pay half a billion dollars “reimbursement” to deal with the financial crisis created by President Joe Biden's failure to secure the southern border, as stated in a letter.

In the letter released on Friday by Mrs. Hobbs, the Democratic governor demanded more than $512 million in federal funds to pay back state spending on illegal immigrant related expenses, including transportation, drug interdiction, law enforcement, and other costs “due to the federal government's failure to secure our border.”

Mrs. Hobbs cited the Dec. 4 closure of one of the state’s busiest port-of-entries in Lukeville, Arizona—where agents were transferred from the crossing to help arrest and process a surge of migrants walking across the border to claim asylum—as an example of how the Biden administration's open border policies have led to massive disruptions for Arizonians.

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