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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Hobbs launches Operation Desert Guardian to enhance Arizona border security and combat criminal activities.

Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, previously expressed a willingness to work with the Trump administration on problems such as border security.

Katie Hobbs signed an executive order to launch Operation Desert Guardian, seeking to curb drug smuggling along the southern ...

Katie Hobbs becomes one of the first major Democratic governors to align with the Trump administration on immigration enforcement efforts.

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