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 preparation 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?

We lost more Americans on 911 than we did at Pearl Harbor. We've lost more Americans killed by Criminal Illegal Aliens than we did on 911. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on 911 did not include rapes, robberies, car hijackings, drug running etc. Half of all federal convictions, 75% of all drug related cases and 37% of all murders committed in the USA are committed by illegal aliens. There is not a crisis on our border it's gone far past a mere crisis but all you no count useless Progressives are interested in is stopping Trump. If folks as evil as Progressives, their whole philosophy and agenda, are so Hell bent on stopping Trump it can only be because ultimately he stands for that which is good. Good always resists evil not because we always expect to win but just because evil exists. Men of good will and faith will always resist evil.

I don't believe it's the water it's the Kool-Aid that she drank. Globalist glug. A taste of world power. And it drives the Democrats Wild! They're looking towards the fall of the United States and they'll be shipping fat and happy with all the power with a one-party system. We might as well all just go out and poop in the middle of the street. Let's start a fight with your neighbor. And then start raping people. Oh and finish up by burning down people's houses. Nothing to see here move along Move Along