14 June 2022

REAL LIFE INTERRUPTS PENCE & DUCEY BORDER ROAD SHOW...The Big Story: Raging Wildfires in Northern Arizona

Intro: The meeting would have been significant because both politicians once were close with Trump but have since fallen out of his favor and made moves to distance themselves
The visit was intended to position former VP Pence for an expected 2024 presidential run – potentially against his former boss. Neither Pence nor Trump has officially announced a 2024 campaign, however.
Governor Doug Ducey had planned to accompany Pence to the border and the news conference but tested positive for COVID-19 and cancelled planned joint public appearances.
BIG STORY: Pipeline Fire ignited by a homeless man camping-out in a national forest when he tried to burn toilet paper after 'going-the-the-bathroom' (scroll down below)

Report from Cronkite News

‘Border security is national security’: Pence in Arizona to discuss immigration

<div class=__reading__mode__extracted__imagecaption>“Under the Trump-Pence administration, our neighbors to the south knew we expected them to do their part to secure their border and ours,” former Vice President Mike Pence tells the Arizona Commerce Authority in Phoenix on Monday. (Photo by Troy Hill/Cronkite News)

PHOENIX – Former Vice President Mike Pence visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County on Monday, then addressed a crowd at the Arizona Commerce Authority in Phoenix on his vision for U.S. border security and immigration, which echoed many of the policies of the Trump administration.

“Along our 2,000 mile border is a crisis of epic proportions, and it’s costing lives on both sides of the border,” Pence said, referring to federal agents’ encounters with migrants entering or attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. . .

[     ]  Although he hasn’t announced a campaign for an elected office, Pence outlined an agenda he wanted for the border, including finishing former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall; getting rid of sanctuary cities; rejecting amnesty, recommitting to the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which forces asylum seekers to wait out their cases in Mexico; and deporting any migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

“Border security is national security,” Pence said, echoing Mark Morgan, a former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in the Trump administration, who spoke before him at the news conference. “And to keep America safe, we must secure our southern border now and always.”

(Border security is national security, Mark Morgan, a former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, tells the Arizona Commerce Authority before Mike Pence takes the stage. (Photo by Troy Hill/Cronkite News)

. . Despite their fraught relationship, Pence spoke highly of his time in Trump’s administration, specifically immigration policies.

“The truth of the matter is under the Trump-Pence administration, our neighbors to the south knew we expected them to do their part to secure their border and ours,” Pence said. “They showed respect to America during the Trump-Pence years.”

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Hundreds are urged to evacuate due to wildfire near Flagstaff, Arizona, as thousands more are told to prepare to leave

<div class=__reading__mode__extracted__imagecaption>Authorities evacuated hundreds of households Sunday due to a fire in the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona.

(CNN)A wildfire burning just six miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona, has prompted evacuations for hundreds of people, and thousands more have been told by authorities to prepare for future evacuation, authorities said Sunday night.

The Pipeline Fire was first reported by a fire lookout at around 10:15 a.m. Sunday and has grown to 4,500 acres, according to InciWeb, a US clearinghouse for wildfire information. Burning slightly west of Schultz Pass, the blaze is active on all sides and continues to grow, InciWeb said.
A total of 690 households have been ordered to evacuate and another group of households has been informed they may have to evacuate soon or imminently, Coconino County spokesman Trey Williams told CNN Sunday evening. An additional 2,410 households have been told to prepare for imminent evacuation. . ."
 
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