President Biden’s continued inaction against the deluge of illegal immigration at the Mexican border spurred Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to act, the Republican told Fox News after publicly pledging more than a dozen guardsmen to be deployed to Texas.
Kemp said the deployment will not happen, however, until a formal request is sent to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Despite Mexico being 1,000 miles from the Chattahoochee River at Georgia’s westernmost boundary, Kemp said the crisis has intensified under Biden to the point “every state is a border state.”
Kemp told “Your World” Tuesday that Georgia guardsmen will set up a forward command post to assist the Texas National Guard’s efforts.
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“We’re still waiting for the written request from Texas – we’re not going to send them whenever we want to help. We know this is a national issue, and unfortunately, the president could fix this, but he’s not acting,” Kemp said.
Kemp noted he joined Abbott and about a dozen other governors from states as far into the interior as Nebraska, Utah, Iowa and Arkansas at the Mexican border to see the crisis for themselves.
“We’ve had people down there since 2019, and I’ve been down there five times,” he said. “I’ve seen when the federal government and the state governments were cooperating, and saw how successful that was and how it flowed to the tide of illegal immigration and mass migration coming across our southern border.”
However, Kemp noted it is not just Texas that shares a boundary with Mexico, telling Fox News the other border state governors have failed to act against the migrant deluge. However, he also underlined the situation is supposed to be a federal issue despite Biden’s apparent abdication of responsibility.
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