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Democratic governors pulling hundreds of National Guard troops from border
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Saturday February 16, 2019 · 9:41 AM PST
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SAN YSIDRO, CA - NOVEMBER 16: The U.S.-Mexico border is marked on November 16, 2018 in San Ysidro, CA. U.S. border agencies continued to fortify the border with razor wire and additional personnel as members of the migrant caravan arrived to Tijuana across the border. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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Two newly sworn-in Democratic governors are refusing to play along with Donald Trump’s border stunt, announcing that in the weeks to come they’ll be withdrawing hundreds of National Guard troops from their states’ border with Mexico.

In this week’s State of the State address, California Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce that he will withdraw more than 300 troops from the region. Troops will instead be reassigned to assist with fire pr********n and drug task force efforts. “The border ‘emergency’ is a manufactured crisis,” he will reportedly say during the speech, “and California will not be part of this political theater.”

Last week, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that she’d be pulling most of the 118 New Mexico Army National Guard members from the state’s border, and redirecting a smaller number to instead assist with humanitarian efforts. “We will support our neighbors where the need for assistance is great, and we will offer a helping hand when we can to those vulnerable people who arrive at our border, but New Mexico will not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops,” she said in a statement.

The troop withdrawals come as Trump is still threatening to declare an emergency in order to build his stupid, expensive, and useless border wall. Clearly, nothing says “emergency” like going back and forth on whether to declare one. But the facts are that not only are border cities safe, but the American public opposes an emergency declaration by a 2:1 margin, according to immigration reform advocacy group America’s Voice.

“The 2018 midterms and the outcome of the government shutdown speak volumes: Americans are against Trump’s wall, his tactics and his rhetoric,” said America’s Voice leader Frank Sharry. “He and his Republican enablers did not make his stupid border wall a priority when they controlled both congressional chambers … the true national emergency is not at the border, it’s at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”


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Those dirty BASTARDS!!! let our National Guard Troops do their work and keep our Borders safe, leave them alone!!!!! I fully support building the Border Wall !!! unlike other brain washed American's who are on the Democratic Dog Leash!!!. I am One Angry Gator!!!!!. How Do Y'all feel about these Criminal Democratic Governors?

SGM B Loc: TEXAS but live in Alabama now

Guard soldiers can be called up for federal active duty for duty on the border, same as being called up for active duty in Afghanistan Once called to active federal duty, these stupid assed dunbocrap givernors have no say in the matter.

SGM B out.

Liberty Tree

They will post signs

COME ON IN AMIGOS!
ILLEGAL OR NOT THE DNC WELCOMES YOU!
HERE IS WHERE YOU SIGN UP TO V**E!

Kevyn

The i***t Pumpkinfuhrer is a scumbag for using our national guard troops as performers in his circus side show.

Lonewolf

all this BS at a time when border crossings is at a 4 year low

Lonewolf

they have them in AZ shoveling horse s**t out of border patrol stables

Liberty Tree

It will not stay that way if Democrats have their way. All the more reason for a wall.

Lonewolf

just make e verfi the law of the land and fine business that hire them out of business that would halt it fast but neither side will support that!!
if they cant do this simple fix a wall wont help

okie don

The INVASION into our nation needs to stop .
Are you this damn brain dead?

okie don

Do you have property?
Would you like people moving on uninvite?
Are you so damn dumb you can't see what's happening?
How many you want 3-4-5 million from Latin American countries.

son of witless

What planet have you been living on your whole life, that you think we do not have a border problem ?

Liberty Tree

To them the problem would be if the flow of illegal future Democrat v**ers was stopped.

son of witless

This group would have called Pearl Harbor a circus side show.

Airforceone

So why do we need them at the border. There’s no emergency other that what’s in the mind of a toddler in Chief that’s nothing but a real estate agent that went bankrupt 5 times..

Liberty Tree

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor they would have invited them to land and served them breakfast.