Arizona Sheriff: Illegal Immigrants Being Handed $5,000 Visa Gift Cards

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โ€œI was absolutely in shock when these agents came forward,โ€ said Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb.

Immigrants who illegally cross the border into Arizona are being handed $5,000 in good-as-cash gift cards, along with cell phones and costly plane tickets, all of which are being paid for by the American taxpayer, according to Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb.

Mr. Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, told The Epoch Times that he had been informed of the lucrative hand-out through his close sources working at the United States border.

โ€œI was absolutely in shock when these agents came forward,โ€ said Mr. Lamb. โ€œI had known we handed out free cell phones and plane tickets, but to give out $5,000 Visa gift cards to people who break our laws and come into our country illegally when the average American is struggling to pay their bills is just tough to swallow.โ€

โ€œPeople need to know the truth and let their representative lawmakers hear about it. This needs to end,โ€ added Mr. Lamb.

Mr. Lamb, who in April became the first Republican to announce his candidacy to challenge Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) for the United States Senate, says that the high-end gift cards, in addition to the plane tickets and cell phones, are paid through American tax dollars funneled from government agencies.

โ€œWe know they’ve been giving illegal immigrants money for a long time,โ€ said Mr. Lamb, who worked in the position of sheriff of Pinal County for seven years. โ€œThe government can make the claim that they aren’t directly paying for it, because each dollar first goes from the government to a non-government institution like a charity before it is used to pay for the illegals.โ€

โ€œThey are just moving the money around, but it all comes from the same place,โ€ he added.

The Epoch Times reached out to a representative from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who was not immediately available for comment.

Surge in Crossings

In recent years the nation has seen a large surge in illegal border crossings.

In October, CBPย reportedย the highest number of illegal immigrant encounters for any October on record, with 240,988 encounters at the southern border. The agency also reported that 13 of the arrests it made during the month were of people on the FBI terrorย watchlist (12 from the southern border and one from the northern border).ย It is expected that the fiscal year total for 2023 will exceed 2.4 million, surpassing 2022’s record of 2.3 million, once the figures are finalized.

Byย Matthew Lysiak

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