Posted on 12/01/2018 2:30:23 PM PST by jazusamo
Full title: Gavin Newsom Wants to Pull CA's National Guard From the Border...Because They're More Useful Elsewhere
California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom has long been at odds with President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Now, he's looking at pulling the state's National Guard from the border because he believes their services can be better used elsewhere.
“I have every desire to pull those Guardsmen back and assist in other capacities,” Newsom said . “It’s my intention today, but every day conditions change, and so I want to caveat that with that understanding.”
Newsom also said he planned to discuss the border situation with Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during his inauguration on Saturday.
"We can't do everything ourselves but I know we're capable of doing more," Newsom said at a news conference at the San Ysidro Civic Cente, not far from where caravan riders attacked Border Patrol agents last weekend.
Newsom was also quick to remind everyone that he objected to the state's National Guard because he didn't “fully understand the benefit of our Guard in relation to the military … I see the benefit of that Guard elsewhere.”
The Governor-elect's statements mean he's looking at playing a more active role in immigration policies and legislation that impact his state's southern border with Mexico. Although current Governor Jerry Brown has opposed Trump's tough immigration policies and refused to cooperate with federal authorities, Brown did join the president in sending the National Guard to the United States-Mexico border, the Associated Press reported.
Although Newsom wants to pull the Guardsmen from the border, the state has an agreement with the feds until March 31st. But things can significantly change over the next three months.
"We are responding to this crisis in real time," Newsom said.
Where would they be more useful? Protecting your sorry azz from the shrinking minority of Californians who still possess a brain?
“California is a joke now. The policies they have are going to lead to a Hispanic majority if not already one.”
We need to be more like the cultures that make Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, the guyanas, and many other countries the envy of the world. When I think of high tech, or space exploration, one of those aforementioned countries sorings to mind instantly.
Well, since you don’t say where and how, what about the next Berkeley riots while the local LEO’s stand about? You do know that riots with destruction of private property and arson are illegal?
Except for a few stoic folks like me all Cali hates the Pres. He should do it politix be damned
They have plenty of laws when they want your money.
Property taxes due in 10 days, yuh know.
Some laws they REALLY like.
Maybe I should just tell them I’m an illegal and the gringo laws don’t apply to me.
California is not a state anymore. It is now again a territory.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m a native Californian but moved north, couldn’t hack it any longer.
They are more useful on the California Arizona border perhaps
When you signed up for the Guard in CA, no one told you that you’d be scooping human feces from sidewalks and feeding illegals.
Hispanic is the majority of so cal already.
I didn’t see or hear Cox for months during that campaign. Most people probably didn’t know he was still in the race. His radio commercials sounded as passionate as a fred Thompson campaign speech.
Idiot apparently doesn’t know how the Guard works. Hint: President Trump can place them under direct national control.
Yes.
What a pathetic state with many elected lunatics .
“...I suggest to defend the border they plant mines.”
Obstacles lacking observation and fire coverage are wasted effort & resources. Just sayin’.
Anybody have a pejorative nickname for Newsom?
Brown’s is “Moonbeam.”
What should we call Newsom?
Hm...liberalism is definitely a mental disorder. And GN is the poster child for insanity. Just like more liberals / Dems / socialists / communists.
He sounds like a looney, how about Loonsom.
Eliminate all federal funding for the California National Guard.
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