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Cox will send Utah National Guard, state troopers to southern Texas border
KSL ^ | 2/9/24 | Bridger Beal-Cvetko

Posted on 02/09/2024 12:15:53 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Friday announced he will send state troopers and Utah National Guard members to the southern border in Texas after receiving emergency aid requests from the Lone Star State. The Utah National Guard will send five soldiers from its engineer battalion on Feb. 26 to help maintain military equipment at the border, and the Utah Highway Patrol will send one sergeant and four troopers from its Criminal Interdiction Team, which specializes in drug investigations. The law enforcement officers will be deployed for 30 days, and the soldiers for two weeks. "Open borders threaten our national security and if the president and Congress won't solve the influx of people and drugs, states have to step up," Cox, a Republican, said in a statement. "Right now, Texas needs our help and we're grateful to our National Guard members, state troopers and their families for their willingness to serve and keep us safe."


TOPICS: History; Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: border; cox; guard; national; nationalguard; security; texas; utah
Gov. Cox has been on a pleasantly surprising roll. Must be an election year.
1 posted on 02/09/2024 12:15:53 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys
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To: LiberalismDestroys

I hear the Arizona border is the hot spot now.


2 posted on 02/09/2024 12:23:52 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Yeah, the Biden administration is trying to piss off Arizona even further and blame it on Texas, Abbott, and Paxton.


3 posted on 02/09/2024 12:26:24 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Sounds like he needs to send them to Times Square.


4 posted on 02/09/2024 12:28:30 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

I hear the Arizona border is the hot spot now.“

Well we know that thieving bitch Hobbs won’t be putting up any razor wire.


5 posted on 02/09/2024 12:35:49 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: LiberalismDestroys

State Troopers?


6 posted on 02/09/2024 12:40:07 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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For some reason, members of the Utah Highway Patrol have traditionally been referred to as troopers. State police basically. They use to have a requirement to be like 6’4” or taller, I remember these giants when they came to my home county to keep the peace during a coal miner’s strike.


7 posted on 02/09/2024 12:49:00 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Right On.


8 posted on 02/09/2024 1:12:41 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: LiberalismDestroys

UT State Troopers, aka UHP, are aces at detecting vehicles transporting bad things.


9 posted on 02/09/2024 1:15:30 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

10-4


10 posted on 02/09/2024 1:17:32 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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This reminds me when I was a teenager, my mother sent me to Coxs to get a seersucker suit but my dyslexia or something kicked in and I ended up at Sears and bought . . . . well I just looked ridiculous.
11 posted on 02/09/2024 2:53:08 PM PST by BipolarBob (One flew East and one flew West . . .)
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