Posted on 06/29/2021 2:46:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that she will join a growing list of Republican governors sending law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico.
Noem’s announcement that she will send up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to Texas comes as the GOP ramps up a political fight with President Joe Biden over border security. The issue has drawn a host of prominent GOP figures: former President Donald Trump was expected to travel to the border this week and Republican governors from Florida, Nebraska and Iowa have all committed to sending law enforcement officers for border security.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this month announced plans to build more barriers along the border. […]
A private donation will fund the cost of sending the South Dakota National Guard troops, Noem said. The deployment is expected to last from 30 to 60 days, while the other states involved are sending law enforcement officers for roughly two-week stints. …
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Federalism at it’s best.
5.56mm
Ping.
HOORAY Kristi
If Kristi wants to get back in our good graces, in addition to signing a women only women’s sports bill, she would send her guard troops to Mount Rushmore to secure a 4th of July fireworks party.
Screw the Feds.
10th Amendment! Do it ourselves and they cant stop it!!
Sorry, but anything going forward that Gov. Noem is doing looks like virtue signaling to conservatives since she failed the test on the Trans Bill in her state.
We should guard the Red, as well as the Grande.
Wow, one strike and you’re out.
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