(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds and other state officials held an hour-long briefing this (Wednesday) morning to discuss the work over 100 Iowa Guard soldiers and 31 state law enforcement officers did at the southern border in August. Reynolds says it’s a crisis that the Biden Administration has ignored.  “It is an open border policy…There’s not another country in the world that would allow this to happen,” Reynolds told reporters. “…When you see the number of terrorists that they’ve have apprehended that are crossing our borders — my God! Think of the ones that got by us.” Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Stephen Osborn says his soldiers found their Texas counterparts were exhausted.

“Texas has been kind of fighting this on their own for a long time,” Osborn says. “Our soldiers volunteered because they believe they’re contributing to the security not just of Texas and those border communities, but the United States and that’s what they swear to protect and defend.”

The 109 Iowa National Guard soldiers the governor deployed to Texas were involved in the capture of 17-hundred illegal immigrants and the surrender of 12-hundred others. State troopers patrolling alongside Texas officers focused on smugglers bringing drugs and humans across the border.