This year's two border deployments ordered by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen cost a combined $1.27 million in state funds and interest.

Nebraska State Patrol officials have defended their state-funded mission to the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas, arguing that they answered a call for help from fellow law enforcement officers amid a ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced last week that he would deploy more than 60 Nebraska Army National Guard members to the Lone Star State for border work.

Nebraska state troopers will be deploying to the Texas border immediately, according to Gov. Jim Pillen's office.

Nebraska will send state troopers down to the United States-Mexico border to help law enforcement in Texas respond to high illegal immigration levels, the governor announced this weekend.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) is sending 10 state troopers to the U.S. border with Mexico in response to Texas’s request for assistance at the border.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Saturday that the state would be sending about 25 Nebraska state troopers to the nation’s border in Texas.

Desperation at the U.S. border — that's how one Nebraska state trooper described what he saw in Texas over the last few weeks. Dozens of troopers spent the past several weeks answering a call to ...

The Nebraska State Patrol deployed 25 troopers to the Del Rio area in late June in response to a joint request by Texas and Arizona — a move some have criticized as a political stunt.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said he will send a group of state troopers to Texas later this month to assist local authorities with border security amid an ongoing immigration crisis.

LINCOLN, Nebraska — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts plans to send about two dozen state troopers to Texas later this month to help patrol the nation's border with Mexico.

LINCOLN, Neb. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts plans to send about two dozen state troopers to Texas later this month to help patrol the nation's border with Mexico. Ricketts said ...