PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
Governor Jerry Brown hedges on sending troops to border
Friday, April 06, 2018 04:42PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Gov. Jerry Brown has been silent on President Donald Trump's call this week for National Guard troops to help protect the southern border with Mexico.
That contrasts with the Democratic governor's quick response when Trump's administration recently sued over the deep blue state's immigration policy days before the president journeyed to San Diego to view his border wall prototypes earlier this year. That was just the latest jousting in the escalating feud between the Trump administration and California, which has resisted the president at almost every turn on issues from marijuana policy to climate change.
WHAT DOES TRUMP WANT FROM CALIFORNIA?
The president wants to send 2,000 to 4,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal authorities combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking. It isn't clear how many he would seek from California. They would provide support but not go on patrols or make arrests. Republican governors in the other border states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas backed the deployment. Even Iowa's Republican governor offered to send National Guard troops from the Midwest. Democratic governors in Oregon and Montana have said they wouldn't send troops.
The California Guard already has 55 employees helping fight drug trafficking, surveillance in the San Diego Harbor, repairing fences, roads and culverts, and analyzing criminal activity in cooperation with state and federal law enforcement agencies.
MORE: http:// abc7news.com/politics/governor-brown-hedges-on-sending-troops-to-border/3310254/
Lets not forget:
Federal judge taunted by Trump sides with president on border wall challenge
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – A federal judge in San Diego who was taunted by Donald Trump during the presidential campaign has sided with the president on a challenge to building a border wall with Mexico.
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on Tuesday rejected arguments by the state of California and advocacy groups that the administration overreached by waiving laws requiring environmental and other reviews before construction could begin.
MORE:
http:// abc7news.com/politics/federal-judge-sides-with-president-on-border-wall-challenge/3149614/
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