Arizona Sheriff: Illegal Immigrants Being Handed $5,000 Visa Gift Cards: “I was absolutely in shock when these agents came forward,” said Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb; Arizona GOP Candidate Says Migrants Given $5000 Gift Cards

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

“I was absolutely in shock when these agents came forward,” 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.

“I was absolutely in shock when these agents came forward,” said Mr. Lamb. “I 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.”

“People need to know the truth and let their representative lawmakers hear about it. This needs to end,” 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.

“We know they’ve been giving illegal immigrants money for a long time,” said Mr. Lamb, who worked in the position of sheriff of Pinal County for seven years. “The 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.” —>READ MORE HERE

Arizona GOP Candidate Says Migrants Given $5000 Gift Cards:

Mark Lamb, an Arizona sheriff who running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican, said he had learned that migrants crossing the border illegally were being given $5,000 prepaid Visa cards.

Federal agencies denied knowledge of such a scheme and Lamb offered no evidence to support his claim on X, formerly known as Twitter.

He also did not say how widespread the alleged practice was. A $5,000 payment to each family crossing the border would cost many millions of dollars a day, a program of a scale that large would be difficult to keep under the radar.

Mark, the Pinal County Sheriff, made the claim this week in a video shared to his Senate campaign account on X. Lamb claimed that “our government” was handing the migrants gift cards, cell phones and airline tickets to any domestic destination after entering the country.

“When these folks come across and they’re processed, they’re being given a cell phone, a plane ticket to anywhere they want to go in this country—so, probably to a community near you—and a $5,000 Visa card,” Lamb says in the video.

“So, while this Christmas season you’re struggling to keep your lights on, while you’re struggling to pay your rent, put Christmas presents under the tree for your kids, we have our government giving people who came into this country illegally $5,000 gift cards,” he added. “That’s the truth, folks.” —>READ MORE HERE

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