Ducey's positions on border, Mexico prove irreconcilable
The contradiction at the heart of Gov. Doug Ducey's Mexico policy was bound to cave in on itself eventually.
It finally did this week.
From the beginning, Ducey has, admirably, worked to re-establish warm relations with Mexico, especially in the areas of cross-border commerce. In July 2015, he wrote in an Arizona Daily Star op-ed:
"In looking for ways to expand jobs and opportunity for Arizonans, we cannot underestimate our relationship with Mexico. And key to our relationship with Mexico is Southern Arizona."
At the same time, Ducey continued the tradition of painting the Southern Arizona borderlands as an out-of-control place requiring tens of millions of state dollars and a jacked up paramilitary presence on the part of the Department of Public Safety.
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