Thread: South Carolina's governor offers troops for border to Texas

South Carolina's governor offers troops for border to Texas

Posted: Monday, April 9, 2018 6:56 pm | Updated: 7:18 pm, Mon Apr 9, 2018.
Associated Press |

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's governor is offering to send National Guard troops to Texas help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking along the Mexican border.

Gov Henry McMaster said no specifics about how many troops would be sent or how long they would stay were discussed on his call Monday afternoon to fellow Republican and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

President Donald Trump called last week for thousands of National Guard troops to be sent to the border in a deployment that some Democratic governors resisted and called political.

McMaster was one of Trump's earliest supporters in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, but said there was nothing political about the deployment. Instead, the governor told The Associated Press it was no different than other states sending troops to South Carolina to help after a hurricane.

"This is the kind of things states do," McMaster said.

McMaster plans to make a similar offer to Arizona's Republican governor in the next few days.

The exact details of South Carolina's deployment will depend on what Texas needs, South Carolina Adjutant General Robert Livingston said.

Abbott said he is planning to send at least 1,000 troops to the border and they could be there for months or years, meaning the South Carolina troops could help rotate other National Guard members out, Livingston said.

Troops from South Carolina have helped out on the border before, offering night surveillance by plane and helping a decade ago to build part of the existing wall on the border, Livingston said.

"It's just states helping states," Livingston said. "That's what makes our country so strong."

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Abbott said he is planning to send at least 1,000 troops to the border and they could be there for months or years, meaning the South Carolina troops could help rotate other National Guard members out, Livingston said.

Now you're talkin'!! Yes, for YEARS. Game over.

"A Pentagon memo about the deployment calls for up to 4,000 troops from border states to be assigned through Sept. 30."

Mattis OKs up to 4,000 National Guard troops for border

That's the end of the Fiscal Year. That would apply to every employee, troop and contractor of the federal government.

California and Nevada do not want to participate and send their National Guard...do not ask other States for help sending OUR firefighters when YOU need them.

"There are already around 55 California Guardsmen providing support on the state's southern border.
"These personnel perform a variety of missions, including surveillance support at the San Diego Harbor, horizontal engineering in an effort to repair roads, fences and culverts, and criminal analysis with state and federal law enforcement personnel in support of counter-narcotics and counter-narcoterrorism operations," the California National Guard said in an email."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/calif...ry?id=54366102

South Carolina Nat’l Guard Troops Heading to Border

Posted: May 22, 2018 2:48 PM PDT Updated: May 22, 2018 2:48 PM PDT

South Carolina Nat’l Guard Troops Heading to Border

WESLACO – National Guard troops from South Carolina are on their way to the Texas-Mexico border.

The troops will be bringing in a helicopter to aid in surveillance.

A spokesperson says the nine soldiers will arrive in Austin first before being assigned to a specific part of the border.

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http://www.krgv.com/story/38252200/s...ding-to-border

GOOD...GIVE THEM TANKS TO START PLOWING DOWN A ONE MILE BUFFER ZONE WHERE THEY CAN!!!

THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO "BUILD THE WALL" BUT THEY CAN CERTAINLY START PLOWING DOWN THE BRUSH TO PREPARE FOR IT!

GET THEM ON THE RANCHERS PROPERTIES WHO WILL AUTHORIZE THEM ACCESS!!!

THEY HAVE TANKS, TRACTORS...LET THEM USE OUR EQUIPMENT THAT WE PAY FOR!

Troops at US-Mexico border a ‘colossal waste,’ Border Patrol union leader says

https://www.alipac.us/f9/troops-us-m...r-says-359095/