Nebraska Governor to Send State Troopers to US / Mexico Border To Assist

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Nebraska Governor to Send State Troopers to US–Mexico Border Amid Immigration Crisis

June 21, 2021

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Nebraska will send state troopers to the U.S.–Mexico border to aid law enforcement after the governors of Arizona and Texas requested help from other states amid a surge of people crossing the border illegally, Gov. Pete Ricketts announced. Ricketts, a Republican, appears to be the second governor to assist after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would deploy troopers and other law enforcement officials from his state to the border. "Nebraska is stepping up to help Texas respond to the ongoing crisis on their border with Mexico," Ricketts said in a June 19 statement. "The disastrous policies of the Biden-Harris Administration created an immigration crisis on the border. While the federal government has fallen short in its response, Nebraska is happy to step up to provide assistance to Texas as they work to protect their communities and keep people safe."

About 25 Nebraska state troopers will head to Del Rio, Texas, to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide law enforcement support. The Del Rio Border Patrol sector in recent months has seen a significant surge of illegal aliens who typically try to cross the Rio Grande—the river that serves as a natural border between the United States and Mexico.  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, sent requests for border assistance earlier this month. They cited the throngs of people surging across their borders, including drug smugglers and those with criminal records... Typically, only federal Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers can detain individuals for immigration offenses. To circumvent this, Abbott and Ducey said they declared a disaster and an emergency, respectively, to allow state police to make arrests in their states.

DeSantis, meanwhile, authorized law enforcement officials from a number of Florida sheriff's offices, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the Florida Highway Patrol to be deployed. Sheriffs from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Lee, Bay, and Brevard counties joined DeSantis at the news conference last week. "We're here today because we have problems in Florida that are not organic to Florida that we've been forced to deal [with] over many years, but particularly over the last six months, because of the failure of the Biden administration to secure our southern border," DeSantis said on June 16.

Nebraska Governor to Send State Troopers to US–Mexico Border Amid Immigration Crisis
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