Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Thursday that the state will be sending troops from the National Guard to help assist with the ongoing migrant crisis at the border.

Ivey announced on Facebook that 275 National Guard troops will be sent to the border.

“Every state has become a border state under the current policies, and Alabama remains committed to being an integral part of the mission to protect our Southern Border,” she wrote.

“The Alabama National Guard always stands ready to protect our citizens, and I thank our 275 troops, as well as their families, for their important service to our country,” added Ivey.

This decision comes after Ivey and 24 other state governors, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to provide more accurate information about the growing migrant crisis.

“As governors, we call on you to provide honest, accurate, detailed information on where the migrants admitted at the southern border are being relocated in the United States, in addition to comprehensive data on asylum claim timelines and qualification rates, and successful deportations,” read the letter.

“We ask for this information immediately, but also regularly as the crisis at the southern border continues.”

The letter claimed that policies from the Biden administration “incentivize illegal immigration” and that states are then left “carrying the burden of both the years-long surge in illegal border crossings and cartels’ coordinated trafficking of drugs and human beings.”

According to the letter, roughly 5.8 million people have unlawfully crossed into the U.S. since 2021.

The influx of migrants in recent months has created a heavy strain for many states and cities across the country.

Along the border, Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas, Jr. issued an emergency disaster declaration to help the city deal with the increasing number of arrivals, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.

The declaration comes following reports that more than 4,000 unlawful migrants crossed into the city in a single 24-hour period and would allow the city to seek state and federal assistance.

Further north, New York City has been heavily impacted by a growing number of unlawful migrant arrivals.

Mayor Eric Adams said in September that the city is experiencing a “financial tsunami” caused by the ongoing crisis and that almost every city agency will be forced to reduce its budget in the coming year.

“This is not a utopia. New York City cannot manage 10,000 people a month with no end in sight. That can’t happen, and that is going to undermine this entire city,” he said, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.

In an attempt to assist those struggling with this crisis, the Department of Homeland Security announced on September 20 that it will allow roughly 500,000 Venezuelans, whether lawful or unlawful migrants, to seek work authorization in the U.S., per The Dallas Express.

If authorized, the Venezuelan migrants would be eligible to earn an income and reduce the financial strain felt by the cities and states tasked with providing food and shelter.

Still, as reported by The Dallas Express, entities like New York City Council’s bipartisan Common-Sense Caucus have contended that this move by the Biden administration will actually end up “incentivizing more migrants to come here,” much as the letter signed by Gov. Ivey accuses.