Friday, April 13, 2018

CA Guv To Deploy 400 National Guard Troops Who Won't Enforce Immigration 5 hours ago

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown agreed Wednesday to deploy 400 National Guard troops at President Donald Trump’s request, but not all will head to the U.S.-Mexico border as Trump wants and none will enforce federal immigration enforcement.

“Let’s be clear on the scope of this mission,” the Democrat Brown wrote in a letter to the Trump administration. “This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life.”

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