DES MOINES – Today Governor Kim Reynolds announced that Iowa State Patrol officers will be deployed to the U.S. Southern Border to aid law enforcement and border security efforts. The governor is responding to a request from Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC).
“My first responsibility is to the health and safety of Iowans and the humanitarian crisis at our nation’s southern border is affecting all 50 states,” said Gov. Reynolds. “The rise in drugs, human trafficking, and violent crime has become unsustainable. Iowa has no choice but to act, and it’s why I am honoring Texas’ Emergency Management Assistance Compact following assurances f
In May, there were roughly 180,000 border encounters, a 20 year high. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in March of 2021 there was a 233% increase in fentanyl seizures from the previous year. In May, that year over year increase climbed to 300%. In Iowa, law enforcement officials are recovering drugs, illegal narcotics, and weapons being smuggled across the nation’s southern border by drug cartels.
According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, in the first quarter of 2021, Iowa saw the highest amounts of methamphetamine seized in any one quarter since 2018. Compare that to May of 2020 when both the purity and seizure of methamphetamine dropped significantly when the border was completely closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. As for Fentanyl, Iowa saw 532 grams seized in January – May of 2020. Over that same time period in 2021, roughly 6,641 grams of Fentanyl was seized, an increase of roughly 1,148%.
The Iowa National Guard (ING) is also currently conducting a mission with 24 soldiers from the Unit 2/34 IBCT to assist law enforcement agencies at the southern border, per an October 2020 request from the federal government under Title 10 active duty mobilization orders.
On June 10, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey formally requested law enforcement support from all 50 states. This request was made through Iowa’s existing EMAC, a national interstate mutual aid agreement that enables states to share resources during a disaster. More information about EMAC can be found here.
The state of Iowa joins Florida, Nebraska, and Idaho, in sending law enforcement to the southern border to assist Texas and Arizona.
16 thoughts on “Gov. Reynolds to send Iowa Law Enforcement Officers to aid border security efforts ”
All these white liberal government workers calling conservative people white thrash is hysterical. There Marxist leaders think of them as white trash and you stupid enough to vote for them.
Every state should stand up and tell Biden where to shove his executive orders! He thinks he’s a DICTATOR! Well actually, HE DOESN’T THINK ON HIS OWN AT ALL!
Our taxpayers money and our officers who are already short-handed. No reason for this other than PR for her. Worst. Iowa. Governor. Ever.
Yup let the drugs roll in
More drugs come in from Canada than Mexico. If the users are here and the dealers will pay the asking price, then drugs are staying here. Legalize them and see what happens. It has to be better than supporting the cartels.
It’s NOT just about the drugs Einstein!
I was responding to the post saying “let the drugs roll in”.
He’d be whining a different tune if the vermin moved in next door to him!
Nope but I would whine if white trash like you moved in next door.
WRONG, talking out of your ass again, because your head knows nothing. Stop spreading bull shit lies, what news source are you working for?
The patrol went from 296 road troopers, distinguished from sworn officers, not all of whom are on the road, in fiscal 2011 to 267 last year, a Gazette analysis shows. As troopers were lost, service to Iowans declined. From fiscal 2011 to 2017:
• Motorist assists fell by more than 60 percent from 22,345 to 8,854.
• Drunken-driving arrests went down 37.6 percent from 2,328 to 1,452.
• Troopers stopped 9.4 percent fewer vehicles from 225,259 to 204,026.
Additionally, troopers covered fewer miles in recent years, dropping from 10.2 million in fiscal 2013 to 9.7 million last year, and investigated 300 fewer crashes in fiscal 2017 than in the previous year.
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Who do you think pays their salaries? Who is paying for their stay in Texas? The taxpayer you moron.
On our tax money.
That sould pizz off the marxist demopoops.
Are you able to make a point without name calling / nasty language? Challenge yourself today.
Look who’s talking!
Hypocrite much there Markwart?