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April 6, 2018 "Texas begins operation to send National Guard troops to the border" By Steve Almasy, Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne This article is about how Texas is getting ready to deploy National Guard troops and vehicles to the border, so the border can be "secured" while Trump's wall is under construction. The National Guard troops will be there for air support, help with reconnaissance and construction of border infrastructure and give logistics support. The National troops will not be allowed to enforce immigration laws. Overall the presence of the National Guard has people feeling a bit uneasy or scared, while others say they feel safer because of the soon decrease of illegal activity on the southern border. Early this April Tracy Norris announced that 250 National Guard troops will be deployed to Texas to defend the state's 1,254-mile long border with Mexico. Tracy Norris claims that protecting our borders is a priority and that President Donald Trump is in full support of that happing. Even though Texas already has 100 troops on the border from an operation from 2014. Arizona has also announced they are sending 150 troops to border next week. As previously said those troops will be there to lend air support, help with reconnaissance and construction of border infrastructure and give logistics support. Overall all the National Guards are there to act as support to Border Patrol agents who are performing law enforcement duties. It was the Department of Homeland Security that pushed getting the troops, and this is because they think that the troops will be able to help with identified security vulnerabilities in the borders/border patrol agents that could be addressed by the National Guard. Overall the National Guards are there to increase border security and help out the border patrol agents. This event is happing in Texas and Arizona specifically, but overall this problem will probably end up affecting our entire relationship with the Mexican border. This event started early this months when tweets were made by state officials to send National troops to the border, and taking actions into sending those troops. This is not the first time National guards get sent to the border. As said in the article Texas already had 100 troops there from a mission in 2014. There was already about 6,000 troops deployed already in the Mexican border. That number will probably just be increasing. Border security has always been a giant problem in America but recently that has been reflected more in social media and television. Overall this event happened because how unprotected the border is towards illegal activity on the southern border. I think our borders should be protected from the illegal activity like drug trafficking or human trafficking. I am unsure in sending the National Guard out there the best way to do that. This is because their presence might interfere with the border patrol agents job and might frighten immigrants who are trying to illegally pass, or worse they can harm them. My biggest fear with that is for innocent people being hurt because of the large number of troops being sent which can lead to miscommunication on rules and boundaries. I will comment on Angeli's Blog Hyperlink and Leslie's Blog Hyperlink.
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