Tucson Standard

League of American Workers (LAW) founder Steve Cortes said the amount of crimes and illegal entries occurring in the state show that "Arizonans are the first victims of Biden’s border recklessness."

“Arizonans are the first victims of Biden’s border recklessness," Cortes told Tucson Standard. "They suffer threats to their prosperity from masses of illegal workers, and threats to their safety from dangerous criminals who cross the open Biden/Harris border undeterred and unvetted.”

“Our latest polling showed a paltry 6% of Arizonans rate the government’s job performance on the border as ‘very strong’ versus a whopping 52% who said ‘very weak,'" he said. 

There have been 342,002 illegal alien encounters in the Tucson Sector so far this fiscal year, according to an analysis by the Tucson Standard. 

John R. Modlin, U.S. Border Patrol’s chief patrol agent in the Tucson Sector, regularly posts on X reports of arrests of these illegal alien encounters.

“Jose Hernandez-Garcia was arrested by Tucson Sector agents after crossing the border illegally near Sells, AZ,” Modlin wrote on April 25. “The Mexican national is a felon. In 2022, he was convicted of rape in the third degree in Spokane, WA. He faces criminal charges.”

A poll by the League of American Workers found that 56% of Arizona voters think President Joe Biden’s border policies are to blame for crimes like an illegal alien’s February 22 murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley

42% of Arizona voters said Biden policies bear a “great deal”of responsibility for crimes such as Riley’s murder by an illegal alien, while 14% said these policies bear “some” responsibility, reported the Grand Canyon Times. 

Cortes is a political advisor and commentator. He previously traded global currencies and interest rates for 25 years for large international hedge funds. He has been an on-air broadcaster for CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Cortes founded LAW in 2022 to conduct research and develops proposals on public policies impacting American workers and the economy.