Sen. Sinema ‘Livid’ About Federal Aid for Migrants Going to NYC Instead of Arizona

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SINEMA: “We fought really hard to get this in. The money was intended, and there’s language that was put in, in the law, that said it should be — it should be going for decompression at the border. The fact that a yeoman's amount of this money went to New York City, in my opinion, is wrong, because they are not a border state and they are not facing the kind of pressure that we are facing here. So, when I hear from folks in other parts of the country say, 'Oh, it's hard, our shelters are overwhelmed, 'yeah, come live a day in the life of Yuma, Somerton or San Luis, just one day. So, I get — I get kind of upset about this, as you can tell. So I want you to know that I’m continuing to fight this and I’m — I am livid that the administration is sending money to a part of the country that while it has a lot of folks showing up in their shelter, they don’t have folks wandering the streets of our small towns and communities or facing, you know, heat exhaustion, showing up without, you know, basics like formula. People will come across the border with chickenpox. What we’re experiencing here in Arizona is matched only by what folks are experiencing in southern Texas. Those are the two communities that are experiencing this crisis. The rest of the country is seeing some elements of it, but we are facing the brunt, and it is wrong and unfair that the SSP money is going to places other than south Texas and south Arizona.”