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Arizona Newspaper Slaps Down Gov. Ducey’s Lie About Border Drugs Busts

By Umul Aiman Shaikh

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s claims about a special state strike force ”border” drug busts were crushed by a report in the Arizona Republic on Friday. The state’s largest newspaper revealed that the arrests didn’t happen anywhere near the border and appeared to actually have been conducted by state troopers patrolling the highways.

The Republican governor’s office issued a press release highlighting three arrests over the past year by his ”border Strike Force .” he said this before his trip to the U.S- Mexico border on Friday.

These three arrests took place in different parts the first arrest was from Tuscon a resident who was stopped about 60 miles from the border, another arrest was in Phoenix,363 miles north of the border. The third was in Littlefield, which is located the entire length of Arizona north of Mexico (570 miles from Nogales) and close to the state border with Utah.

Whenever the state troops made drugs arrest the credit was often taken by the border unit which is unfair

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Umul Aiman Shaikh

Umul Aiman is a media student currently pursuing her third year degree from Rizvi college of Arts, Science and Commerce (Mumbai) with a specialization in journalism. She has strong hold on Communication and Content writing .She is enthusiastic and passionate towards her work .She is currently working as journalist at USnewshour.com and can be reached at sumulaiman13@gmail.com