{"id":78779,"date":"2018-04-09T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78779"},"modified":"2018-04-09T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:06:06","slug":"texas-national-guard-deploys-to-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78779","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard deploys to border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78780\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Texas-Guard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Texas-Guard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Texas-Guard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Texas-Guard-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Texas-Guard-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Texas-Guard.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/politics\/texas-national-guard-troops-deployed-to-the-border\/3318540\/\">ABC13<\/a> reports that about five hundred Texas National Guard troops have deployed to that state&#8217;s border with Mexico. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Texas Military Department tweeted a photo with the caption &#8220;Texas National Guard is currently on ground across the Texas-Mexico border with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, preparing for more operations and troops.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/382066-mattis-approves-sending-4000-national-guard-troops-to-border\">The Hill<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has authorized a total of four thousand National Guard troops for the mission;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The memo authorizes the use of Title 32 and Defense Department dollars for up to 4,000 National Guard personnel to support the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s \u201csouthern border security mission while under the command and control of their respective governors through September 30, 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also states that troops &#8220;will not perform law enforcement activities or interact with migrants or other persons detained by DHS personnel\u201d unless Mattis approves it.<\/p>\n<p>Troops will be armed only in \u201ccircumstances that might require self-defense,&#8221; according to the memo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/news\/nation\/california\/2018\/04\/08\/heres-what-could-happen-if-jerry-brown-refuses-send-ca-national-guard-border\/497747002\/\">Desert Sun<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officials in Texas and Arizona, the two states which share the longest borders with Mexico, said on Friday they would deploy 250 and 150 guardsmen to the border, respectively. Texas officials said this deployment was the first wave, and more guardsmen would be sent to the border at a later date, joining 100 guardsmen who were stationed along the Texas-Mexico border, prior to the president\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in New Mexico have expressed support for calling up the National Guard, but have not announced specific plans about how many or when the state\u2019s guardsmen would be mobilized.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the Bush Administration, about 29,000 Guardsmen have deployed to the Mexican border to assist federal agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC13 reports that about five hundred Texas National Guard troops have deployed to that state&#8217;s border &hellip; <a title=\"Texas National Guard deploys to border\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78779\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas National Guard deploys to border<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}