A growing collection of Democratic governors are openly criticizing President Joe Biden and his administration over various policies that they say are harming their states and their residents.
In Arizona, for instance, Gov. Katie Hobbs is demanding that Biden reverse several of his immigration and border policies as well as direct hundreds of millions of dollars to her state to compensate for having to deal with successive tidal waves of illegal migrants.
Hobbs is planning a trip to the border near Lukeville, Ariz., over the weekend, her office said, to see first-hand an unfolding catastrophe there, which will come after she sent Biden a scathing letter blasting his policies for a lack of border security.
The Lukeville Port of Entry was shut down on Monday by a federal government directive, forcing both American and Mexican residents to drive several hours to the nearest port of entry in Nogales, Ariz. According to Representative Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), travelers now encounter lines that are up to five hours long.
Illegal immigration through the Tucson region of Arizona started to increase six months ago and has risen in recent weeks, climbing from 12,000 arrests per week to 17,500 arrests in the week ending on Nov. 30. Data for the most recent week was supposed to be released on Friday, the Examiner said.
John Della Volpe, the polling director at the Harvard Kennedy Institute of Politics, found in his study that younger Americans are trending away from the Democratic Party, while a separate study found that high school senior boys are becoming more conservative.
In 2019, nearly 39 percent of the participants in the Harvard Youth Poll stated that they identified as Democrats. However, in the following spring, this number decreased to 35 percent. Meanwhile, the proportion of young voters who identified as independents or “unaffiliated with a major party” rose from 36 percent in 2019 to 40 percent this year. Also, the percentage of youth voters who identified as Republicans rose slightly from 23 percent to 24 percent,