Former Department of Homeland Security advisor Charles Marino said on Tuesday that Governor Katie Hobbs (D) should have done more to address the migrant crisis prior to the federal government’s closure of the Lukeville Point of Entry.

Marino, a security expert who advised the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2009 until 2011, made the remarks to John Fredericks on the “Outside the Beltway” program on Real America’s Voice. Fredericks, who is the publisher of The Virginia Star and The Georgia Star News, asked Marino about Arizona’s response to the 17,000 illegal immigrants officials apprehended in Tucson over just one week.

“These Democrat politicians around the country, governors, mayors, they don’t care about solving the problem,” said Marino, arguing that most local officials are only “asking for money” because they are “petrified to call out the administration.”

Marino told Fredericks that Hobbs “should be one of the first out there” when the immigration crisis began. He argued Hobbs should have joined Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) in identifying illegal immigration as “a threat to our community [and] a threat to the country.”

“So congratulations on the strongly worded letter, but where have you been for the past two and a half years would be my question,” Marino told Fredericks, referencing a letter sent by Hobbs which demanded more than $500 million from the federal government to compensate for the illegal immigration crisis.

He said, “And why are you not looking out for your constituency, or the rest of us in the United States, who are all being impacted by this?”