Arizona will receive roughly fifty million dollars from the Department of Homeland Security to assist with humanitarian relief initiatives in border communities.
This sum is a portion of the $380 million that will be distributed among the states that are affected by asylum seekers.
Ruben Gallego, a congressman from Arizona, has stated that the state will receive over twenty million dollars, that Pima County would receive close to nineteen million dollars, and that the remaining funds will be divided between the Regional Center for Border Health in Yuma County and the Borderlands Resource Initiative in Pima County.
In a statement, Gallego stated, “Our border communities are on the frontlines of the border crisis, and we cannot leave them to deal with it on their own”.
“I won’t stop fighting for more funding and to fix our broken immigration system,” he added.
