DC: California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he will accept federal funds to add National Guard members to a statewide anti-crime program, but did not say how many of those troops would go to the U.S.-Mexico border as a part of President Donald Trump’s order.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Pentagon chief Jim Mattis, Brown said 400 additional National Guard Troops would join the 250 assigned to an ongoing program to combat transnational crime. The additional staffing will allow the Guard to support law enforcement operations against transnational gangs, human traffickers and drug smugglers “throughout the state,” he said.
Brown did not specify how many of the new troops would be sent to the border, where California already has 55 guardsmen.
“The location of Guard personnel — and number specifically working in support of operations along the border, the coast and elsewhere in the state — will be dictated by the needs on the ground,” a spokesperson for the governor’s office told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.
Until Brown’s letter on Wednesday, California had been the only border state that had not authorized a deployment of National Guard troops to support Trump’s border security mission. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have thus far pledged a combined deployment of 1,588 Guard members, 700 of which have already arrived on the border. The remainder are expected to arrive later this month.
In keeping with his previous rhetoric against Trump’s immigration agenda, Brown emphasized the California guardsmen will not be permitted to arrest border jumpers or other illegal immigrants. read more
SNIP: Go read Brown’s ‘terms’. Hilarious.
It’s not a problem for Jerry, tomorrow, he will have no idea of who send any troops anywhere.
I can’t stop laughing at his terms. I just can’t. He thinks they’re going to go down there and mop floors and that’s it. lol.
Correct me if I’m wrong – Obama and Lil’ Bush sent the NG to the border.
He still has Linda Ronstadt shake his matinis….not stirred
Brown you Faggot, go take some more Acid and dissappear !
Here’s a predictable one for you, for some unknown reason Californian’s have not had a Media Freak out about our Water running low in State for a very long time. We hear “conserve” but never the doom the Media placed there before Democrat’s sold us out in ” The Great Mexican’s for White Voters Initiative “.
” Brown I hope you die of Drought “
Wow. Our governor Brown (Kate) is even worse than their governor Brown. Who would have guessed?
President: General build a wall
General: Yes sir! Major you need to build a wall
Major: Yes sir, Sergent you need to build a wall
Sergent: Yes Sir, Specialist start mixing cement, Private build the f’ing wall
Private: GD Army, I am building a F’ing wall.
CA Governor: But, But…