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THE BORDER EMERGENCIES
... and Arizona
By Janet Napolitano, JANET NAPOLITANO is the governor of Arizona.

THERE IS A REAL EMERGENCY at the Arizona-Mexico border. Law enforcement and other county and city entities have been pleading for assistance, and I could not wait any longer for the federal government to do its job. That's why I declared a state of emergency in Arizona last week. It allows us to allocate more state money to much-needed border enforcement.

Arizona's border with Mexico is in drastic need of federal attention, but the federal government has done little to shore it up. As a result, criminality is alive and well along the border, preying upon Arizonans as well as the people desperate to get into the United States.

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Day in and day out, law enforcement officers in the four counties on the border â€â€