Posted on 04/11/2018 1:32:14 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Read Gov. Brown's full letter below.
Dear Secretary Nielsen and Secretary Mattis:
Pursuant to your request, the California National Guard will accept federal funding to add approximately 400 Guard members statewide to supplement the staffing of its ongoing program to combat transnational crime. This program is currently staffed by 250 personnel statewide, including 55 at the California border.
Your funding for new staffing will allow the Guard to do what it does best: support operations targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state. Combating these criminal threats are priorities for all Americans – Republicans and Democrats. That’s why the state and the Guard have long supported this important work and agreed to similar targeted assistance in 2006 under President Bush and in 2010 under President Obama.
But let’s be crystal clear on the scope of this mission. This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.
Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California).
I agree with the Catholic Bishops who have said that local, state and federal officials should “work collaboratively and prudently in the implementation of this deployment, ensuring that the presence of the National Guard is measured and not disruptive to community life.”
I look forward to working with you on this important effort.
Sincerely,
Edmund G. Brown Jr.
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Heh.
They plan to use this as an attack on Trump. That he’s nuts and using the NG for no reason and/or solely for political purposes.
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Riiiight!
But let’s be crystal clear on the scope of this mission. This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.
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STFU. Thanks.
I love this. Governor Moonbat just told General Mad Dog Mattis what the mission is.
I’m not sure the governor expected so much push-back on this idea, as he received.
I think he has compromised.
He is still strongly anti-Trump on this issue and basically every other issue.
He says lots of things. But he is partly going along for now.
Either they go to the border, as other states’ Guard are doing, or they should not be funded. Gov. Brown could use the funds to hire more immigration lawyers to keep the illegals safe from deportation. President Trump should not trust him.
And they will take the funding and funnel to some leftist socialist cause instead of paying the troops.
“I agree with the Catholic Bishops”
Ah yes. The Jesuit speaks.
Reinforcing what we Protestants knew all along: his real hatred is for the Anglo-Protestant Americans, and his aim is to overwhelm us with our enemies so that once again, the Papal Mafia can dictate our lives to us.
Subjugation is the real intent of Brown’s so called interest in “civil rights”.
If they won’t build the Wall, have them dig latrines.
I would like to be a fly on the wall to hear what Mad Dog has to say about that.
Moonbeam is an idiot and lying one too.
Violation of Church and State.
Moonbeam vs. Mad Dog. Nice meme.
Bingo!
yeah. With orders to help the illegals across, give them money, bus tickets and voter registration forms , and drive them to the welfare office and ...
Brown preferred to allow Trump a win on this one, or he risked being a loser in more ways than one.
Trump would have won on the NG to the border anyway, but Brown risked the embarrassment of Trump federalizing the CA NG, and that would have been a double whammy against Brown.
Let me guess... they’re all going to be Hispanic. And there will be several journalists embedded with them.
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