(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says she is working out an agreement to deploy the Iowa National Guard to help federal immigration enforcement efforts in Iowa. Reynolds says she met with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who approached states asking for help.

“What we really looked at was like, logistics and processing is probably the way that we would look to help from a state perspective, but that’s subject to change, and I don’t know the numbers at this point. I think they’re still seeing how many states are doing it and what that’ll look like,” she says. Reynolds says they need to see what would be involved in helping out.

“We’ll see what that looks like and make sure that we have, you know, we’ve got a large deployment going on right now, too. I think it’d be, you know, we’re trying to decide if it’s Title 10 or Title 32 or what that falls under…the federal government would cover the cost on that,” Reynolds says. Reynolds says she is waiting to hear back from Secretary of Defense before she provides information on how many troops could be deployed.

“So there’s just a lot of things that have to be worked out before we have any specifics on start time and what that looks like moving forward,” Reynolds says. some 18-hundred Iowa National Guard soldiers are on a deployment to the Middle East.