TEXAS- On Monday, a group of Republican governors visited the U.S. Southern Border in Texas, some of whom after sending troops and aid to the state at the behest of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, after sending a handful of Nebraska National Guardsmen, was in attendance, using the word "disbelief" to describe his first visit to the border.

Pillen said at the event that a series of buoys authorized for use by Abbott are being misrepresented in the news media, calling them a "deterrent" to Mexican drug cartels that are shipping drugs across the border to "kill our kids." The governors of Iowa, South Dakota, and Oklahoma were also in attendance at the border, echoing similar sentiments.

In response to the visit, Domingo Garcia, head of the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the saw-fitted buoys on the border "sadistic instruments" that are "a basic failure of human dignity." Garcia went on to say that the group of governors in attendance were wasting taxpayer money and should "redirect their attention to their own states and refrain from becoming pawns in a failed policy of hatred and fear." The deployment of Nebraska personnel by Gov. Pillen could cost the state up to $2 million.

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