Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) – On Monday, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor joined 26 other states in an Iowa and Utah-led letter to the Biden Administration, supporting Texas’s border defense.
“The lack of resolve by the federal government under the current administration is causing a catastrophe at the border that is impacting law abiding Americans across our country,” Governor Mike Dunleavy said. “I’m proud to stand with Governor Abbot, and his efforts to do what the federal government should be doing and secure the border. The current administration in Washington is failing its citizens and has completely abrogated its responsibility to secure our borders.”
“President Biden is using the people of Texas as a buffer between his dangerous policies and the rest of the American population,” Attorney General Taylor said. “The federal government may have authority to manage the border and immigration policies, but that does not mean that states like Texas have to stand idly by and suffer the consequences of the President’s disastrous border policies. Alaska stands with Governor Abbott and the people of Texas as they hold the line. If the Federal Government wants the sole authority to manage the border, then it has to enforce the law and secure the border.”
The States demand that the Biden Administration either enforce the laws that secure the southern border or allow States like Texas to take action.
Alaska joined the Iowa and Utah-led letter, along with Alabama, 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 here: https://law.alaska.gov/pdf/press/240201-Letter.pdf
