Conservative officials across the country vowed earlier this year to deploy National Guard Troops to help reverse what they called "President Joe Biden's border crisis." Overall, more than a dozen states have dug into their own budgets to send more personnel to the area, a new report shows.
The report comes from States Newsroom outlets across the country, which tackled state deployments and expenses so far this year as part of a collaboration with The Texas Tribune and Stateline to get a sense of what became of these promises, how many people were sent to Texas by governors, and at what cost.
