Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks during a property briefing Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. Photo by: Wade Vandervort
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 2:34 p.m.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has enactment his signature connected a associated missive from 22 chap Republican governors urging Congress to restore U.S. funding for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a quality merchandise from his office.
"As a erstwhile sheriff, I cognize firsthand that instrumentality enforcement officers cannot bash their jobs efficaciously without the personnel, equipment, and resources they request to support communities safe," Lombardo stated in the release. "The men and women of CBP and ICE are connected the beforehand lines protecting our federation from unsafe criminals, cause traffickers, and quality traffickers. Congress has a work to guarantee these agencies are afloat funded and afloat equipped to transportation retired their mission.”
In a associated missive sent to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the governors emphasized “the captious relation CBP and ICE play successful protecting American communities, securing the nation's borders, and combating cause trafficking, quality trafficking and different transgression activity.”
The governors called connected Congress to walk The Secure America Act to provide long-term backing for some agencies and guarantee they person the resources indispensable to transportation retired their missions.
They besides placed blasted connected Senate Democrats, whom the governors claimed “have refused to money CBP and ICE, utilizing the brave and selfless men and women of CBP and ICE arsenic pawns and collateral harm to their governmental cause.”
“Governors volition lone beryllium arsenic palmy arsenic their national partners, and Senate Democrats are failing to fulfill the basal national work of backing cardinal portions of our national instrumentality enforcement System,” the letter stated.
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