National Guard Says It’s Responding to Declared Emergency on US–Mexico Border

The U.S. National Guard is deploying more troops to the U.S.–Mexico border as the Trump administration ramps up border and immigration enforcement efforts. In a statement on Wednesday, the National Guard Bureau confirmed it will send more assets to assist the military’s U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) alongside the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) in what the statement said is “an emergency on [the] Southern Border.” Gen. Steven S. Nordhaus, head of the National Guard Bureau, said in a statement that about 1,600 National Guard members are deployed along the border but that the bureau will be “developing additional support options to meet USNORTHCOM, USTRANSCOM, and Department of Homeland Security force requirements.”...