TEXAS- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday was one of nine Republican governors to join Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for a tour of the state’s southern border and a press conference where they decried President Joe Biden’s border enforcement policies and proposed their own.

At the press conference in Mission, Texas, speakers framed the issue as a far-reaching federal failure that has forced states to step in to help.

“President Biden thinks that he can ignore this humanitarian and security crisis and it will go away,” Ricketts said. “But we are here today to shine a light on what is going on here at the southern border and how it is impacting all of our states, not just the state of Texas.”

Ricketts was among the GOP governors who deployed state troopers to the Del Rio area earlier this year in response to a joint request by Texas and Arizona. Documents obtained by The World-Herald showed Nebraska agreed to pay the cost, last estimated at $500,000.

A total of 190 Nebraska National Guard soldiers deployed to the southwestern border earlier this month at the direction of the federal government, according to Maj. Scott Ingalsbe, spokesperson for the Nebraska National Guard.

Alongside Abbott and Ricketts Wednesday were other Texas officials and the Republican governors of Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wyoming.

Abbott, Ricketts, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds talked about pieces of a “10-point plan” the GOP governors say they think would solve the issue. The suggestions include continuing to build a border wall, allotting more resources to address human trafficking and drug trafficking, and reinstating the Trump-era program often referred to as the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to await court hearings outside the U.S.

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