Sen. Janae Shamp (R-Surprise) said her border security bill that passed the Senate this week would give sheriff's and law enforcement the "resources and support" to deal with illegal aliens coming across the Arizona-Mexico U.S. Border.
"Our law enforcement is overwhelmed by the chaos created by Biden's open border policies and it's time to take the handcuffs off of our law enforcement," said Shamp on the Arizona State Senate floor prior to the vote on her bill. "This bill is supported 100 percent unanimous by the sheriff's association."
"The men elected by the citizens in the individual counties to protect every Arizonan, they need this," said Shamp. "We need to give the sheriffs and the law enforcement the resources and the support."
Shamp's bill, SB 1231, makes it illegal for for a person to enter Arizona by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside of an official port of entry. It also would provide civil liability to state or local government officials who enforce the law.
The legislation passed the full Senate on a party-line vote of 16-13-1, with every "yes" vote coming from a Republican. State Sen. Eva Diaz (D-Tolleson) did not vote on the bill.
Shamp was first elected to represent Arizona’s 29th Legislative District in Nov. 2022. She defeated Democrat David Raymer, winning 59 percent to Raymer’s 41 percent.
A resident of Surprise, Shamp graduated cum laude from Arizona State University and received her nursing degree, also graduating cum laude, from Grand Canyon University.
She is an operating room nurse, and said she was fired from her nursing position for refusing to take the “COVID” MRNA injection.
Arizona’s 29th Legislative District is entirely located within Maricopa County, west and northwest of Phoenix. The district stretches from Litchfield Park in the south to north of Morristown in the north, stopping to the east of Wickenburg. It includes Luke Air Force Base.
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