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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><img width="624" height="147" style="width:6.5in;height:1.5312in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D7B92D.35262C40"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Oct. 4, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Gov. Little, nine other governors to visit U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little will join nine other governors for a visit to the United States-Mexico border in Texas Wednesday to witness firsthand the crisis playing
out, reveal their proposed solutions, and once again call on President Joe Biden to act to secure the border immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little plans to take a boat tour of the Rio Grande River, which forms part of the border between the two countries, with Texas Department of Public Safety agents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governors in attendance in Texas Wednesday include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Texas Governor
<b>Greg Abbott</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Arizona Governor
<b>Doug Ducey</b> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Idaho Governor
<b>Brad Little</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Montana Governor
<b>Greg Gianforte</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Wyoming Governor
<b>Mark Gordon</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Iowa Governor
<b>Kim Reynolds</b> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Georgia Governor
<b>Brian Kemp</b> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Nebraska Governor
<b>Pete Ricketts</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Ohio Governor
<b>Mike DeWine <o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Oklahoma Governor
<b>Kevin Stitt</b><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-25-other-governors-request-meeting-with-biden-on-border-crisis/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little and 25 other governors recently
requested a meeting with President Joe Biden</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> in Washington, D.C., to work together on solutions to the national security and public health crisis created by the unenforced border with
Mexico. The president did not agree to meet with the governors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As Governor Little pointed out in a
</span><a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6274929347001#sp=show-clips"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">FOX & Friends news story</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> last week, Idaho is
experiencing a surge in drug overdoses due to the abundance of cheap supplies of meth and fentanyl, almost all of which comes across the loose border with Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-details-his-plan-to-help-secure-u-s-mexico-border-and-protect-idahoans/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little sent a specialized team
of Idaho State Police troopers to the border</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> this summer to assist with intelligence gathering and investigative work related to drug interdiction at the border. The troopers completed
their weeks-long mission, serving both as a force multiplier for local efforts at a time when it’s needed along the border and, importantly, to bring back to Idaho the experience of seeing and learning up-to-the-minute enforcement techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little’s office will send out detailed information Thursday on the Governor’s trip to the border along with the solutions proposed by the nation’s governors to
address the crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Marissa Morrison, Press Secretary</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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