But the hasty state emergency program, including the ill-fated cruise ship contract, highlights the problems that can develop when state officials intervene to help manage the borders, a role traditionally reserved for the federal government.
The man has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of lying to federal agents who say he helped to create works displayed and later seized at the Orlando Museum of Art. The museum's director at the time was the former head of William & Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art.
On Feb. 5, after President Biden ordered the shootdown of a Chinese spy balloon, Navy photographer Tyler Thompson took several extraordinary images of sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 collecting some of the debris in the ocean off Myrtle Beach.