Faced with mounting crisis at the southern border that has overwhelmed officials and border states, the governors of Texas and Arizona urged their counterparts in other states to send law enforcement to help them patrol the border, Fox News reports.
Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona urgently requested in a
letter to their fellow governors this week to send all available
law-enforcement resources to the border in defense of US sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
They argued that additional manpower is needed from any state that can spare
it to secure the border in the federal government’s absence, pointing that now
the Emergency Management Assistance Compact gives them a chance to stand strong
with Texas and Arizona.
More than 180,000 migrants, including more than 10,000 unaccompanied
children, were encountered in May alone as part of the surge in migration to
the border both the federal government and the border states have been dealing
with.
Texas and Arizona, who have sued over the Biden administration’s policies
arguing that relaxing of Trump-era border and enforcement measures hurts them
the most, have complained that migrants are often let loose into communities
and able to travel to wherever they want.
They warned other states that this it will have a knock-on effect to them
too.
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