Texas governor extols National Guard border plan
by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
Apr 13, 2018
3 minutes
WESLACO, Texas - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed President Donald Trump's call to send National Guard troops to the border, and on Thursday echoed that theme in a key spot - the Rio Grande Valley, epicenter of illegal smuggling on the southern border in recent years.
"This operation is necessary in order to deal with an escalation in cross-border traffic," Abbott said, noting that the number of people crossing the border illegally more than doubled last month compared with this
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