The executive order states that the Arizona departments of public safety, homeland security and emergency affairs shall create a border task force.

Governor Katie Hobbs has launched Operation Desert Guardian, a new border security effort aimed at stopping drug smuggling, human trafficking, and cartel activity in Arizona’s four border counties.

Hobbs says "What we're focused on here is really the criminal activity with the cartels, human smuggling, drug smuggling, trafficking off illegal weapons, and those things are still happening,".

According to a spokesperson for Gov. Hobbs, state officials with the Arizona Department of Homeland Security, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Arizona Department of Emergency and ...

Governor Katie Hobbs unveiled Operation Desert Guardian on Tuesday. Some sheriffs learned about the new border task force ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs is launching a new border-security joint task force, dubbed "Operation Desert Guardian," through an ...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed an executive order to combat drug and migrant smuggling and gun-running in four counties ...

The order creates Operation Desert Guardian, a joint task force that allows local law enforcement to partner with federal ...