Migrant crisis: Noem sends National Guard to southern border's 'warzone'
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is deploying 60 National Guard troops to Texas to secure the border. It is the fifth time she has done so to address the illegal immigrant crisis.
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"The border is a warzone, so we’re sending soldiers," Noem said in a statement. "These soldiers’ primary mission will be construction of a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, drug cartels, and human trafficking into the United States of America."
Noem previewed the troop deployment in an address to a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature late last month. In remarks delivered after she visited Eagle Pass, Texas, in January, Noem decried an "invasion" at the border and urged all 50 states to join forces to repel Mexican drug cartels.
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