Texas Governor Deploys 400 National Guardsmen to El Paso Border CrisisBob Price 20 Dec 2022
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of 400 National Guardsmen to El Paso. They are ordered to provide additional security measures in the increasing humanitarian crisis where migrants are sleeping on the streets of El Paso in freezing conditions.
The Texas Military Department tweeted photos of two C-130J aircraft arriving in El Paso with approximately 400 National Guard soldiers. The stated mission for the deployment is to assist in “deterring illegal migrants from Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, into the United States.”
A statement from the Texas Military Department states the National Guard deployed the 606th Military Police Battalion to “safeguard the border and repel and turn-back illegal immigrants.” The soldiers are being deployed under Governor Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border security mission.
Texas officials told Breitbart that the deployment is in response to the Disaster Declaration issued by El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser on Saturday.
The mayor issued the declaration as migrants released by Border Patrol officials were forced to sleep on the streets of El Paso in freezing weather conditions. El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials released more than 10,000 migrants in El Paso during the past week.
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