/Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announced Monday the state will send about 60 state Army National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas to assist Texas’s border security effort Operation Lone Star.
“This mission is critical to the security of Nebraska as well as other states,” Pillen said in a press release. “We need to maintain the safety of our citizenry and stem the ongoing influx of illegal drugs, weapons and criminals into our borders.”
Operation Lone Star is Texas’s $2 billion-per-year program to limit migrant crossings into the U.S. from Mexico. It includes an increase in border patrol law enforcement and building new infrastructure, such as buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande River to prevent people from swimming across.
The Nebraska troops will provide “additional observation and reporting near the border” for about a month, Pillen said. The state previously sent 10 state troopers to Texas in May to operate observation drones for about two weeks...more
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