Texas, Arizona Governors Ask All Other States to Send Police to US-Mexico Border

In this still image from a video released by NTD, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a border security summit in Del Rio, Texas, on June 10, 2021. NTD

The governors of Arizona and Texas said that other states need to deploy available police or law enforcement to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist Border Patrol agents as they deal with a surge in encounters.

Due to the surge of illegal migration, Govs. Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey wrote in a letter Thursday to other governors that “additional manpower is needed from any state that can spare it.”