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Iowa co-leads multi-state coalition siding with Texas in border battle with Biden Administration

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes co-led a 27-state coalition in a letter to the Biden Administration, supporting Texas’s border defense.

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January 30, 2024
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DES MOINES, Iowa —Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes co-led a 27-state coalition in a letter to the Biden Administration on Monday, supporting Texas’s border defense.

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Since President Biden took office, more than six million people have crossed the southern border illegally—roughly the population of Iowa and Utah combined. Bird says that the Biden Administration has done more than turned a blind eye to the unprecedented crisis at the southern border, that includes record illegal crossings, and an influx of drug and human trafficking, and increased encounters with members of the terror watchlist, but actively made the crisis worse. In one month, Border Patrol agents acting on the Biden Administration’s orders cut Texas’s border defense wires more than 20 times. In one case, Bird claims, they even used a forklift to raise the wire and usher in more than 300 illegal aliens.

States like Texas have taken steps to address the crisis in response to what they say is inaction by the Biden Administration. A federal district court found that Texas’s border defense wires reduced illegal border crossings by more than two-thirds.

“The invasion on our southern border has made every state a border state,” Bird said. “While the Biden Administration has opened the door wide for drug cartels, traffickers, and potential terrorists to cross our border, States have been left to fend for themselves. If the Biden Administration won’t do its job to secure our border and keep Americans safe, it should step aside to let the States do the job for them. Iowa proudly stands with Texas in this fight.”

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The coalition of states demand that the Biden Administration either enforce the laws that secure the southern border or allow states like Texas to stop the invasion themselves.

Iowa co-led the letter with Utah. They are joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, and the Arizona State Legislature.

Read the full letter below:

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