Arizona governor declares state of emergency, sends National Guard troops to border

By Jordan Williams - 04/21/21 08:46 AM EDT

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has declared a state of emergency and is sending 250 National Guard troops to support local law enforcement at the border with Mexico.

The move makes Arizona the first state to declare an emergency as the Biden administration seeks to control the influx of migrants at the border.

In recorded remarks, Ducey blasted President Biden’s handling of the surge, saying the administration was "totally divorced from reality."

“I said last month that the Biden administration is totally divorced from reality,” Ducey said. “Now, at times it seems like they fully understand the reality and they’re putting their heads in the sand and trying to ignore it anyway.”

Ducey’s office said in a statement that the troops will go to border communities to help with medical operations in detention centers, install and maintain border cameras, monitor and collect data from public safety cameras and analyze satellite imagery for smuggling.

An initial $25 million will be directed toward the deployment, though it’s unclear how long it would last.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/549417-arizona-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-sends-national-guard-troops

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Tucker Carlson blasts Washington Post columnist

By Thomas Moore - 04/21/21 10:02 AM EDT

Tucker Carlson blasted The Washington Post and its media columnist, Erik Wemple, on Tuesday for looking into his background and contacting Carlson’s college acquaintances.

“Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we'd done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson told viewers, referring to the Amazon CEO, who also owns the Post. “Let us know if you hear any good stories.”

According to Carlson, “quite a few old college classmates” had contacted him Tuesday and told him Wemple had been asking questions.

Wemple declined to comment on Carlson’s comments or if he was investigating the host’s background.

Fox News and a representative from “Tucker Carlson Tonight” did not immediately comment on the segment or answer questions if they thought Carlson’s background was a legitimate topic for journalists to investigate.

However, in the comments on his show, Carlson said Wemple’s work was comparable to the investigations political candidates conduct into their political opponents.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549438-tucker-carlson-blasts-washington-post-columnist