Critics call for transparency in Nebraska state troopers' border deployment
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Sara Gentzler
About 25 Nebraska state troopers will deploy this week and start work in Texas on June 28, according to the State Patrol, in response to a request for assistance at the U.S.-Mexico border. Critics who consider the deployment political want more transparency about costs and what the troopers will be doing.
Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Saturday that the state would send troopers to Texas “in response to a request for support in managing the ongoing crisis in communities” along the border.
In a press release, the governor referenced “the disastrous policies of the Biden-Harris Administration” as creating “an immigration crisis on the border.” Ricketts on Tuesday told The World-Herald that “Biden has taken many actions that have weakened enforcement of immigration policies, leading to a significant reduction in enforcement actions.” He noted that arrests decreased by more than 60% in February compared with the last three full months of the Trump administration.
“President Trump was addressing an ongoing crisis on the border, and dramatically reduced illegal border crossings, while President Biden reignited the crisis,” Ricketts said.
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and placing them in a position where they completely unfamiliar and untrained (systems, procedure, legal, terrain ...) and are essentially no more than warm bodies.
You could have essentially sent them 25 Starbucks employees, or bus drivers. Same level of assistance.
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