Gov. Noem Approves Federal Request to Deploy Additional South Dakota National Guard to Southern Border
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem approved the deployment of approximately 125 members of the South Dakota National Guard to the southern border between the United States and Mexico. The deployment will take place later this year at the request of the federal government.
“Our South Dakota National Guard is the very best in the country, and they are prepared for the sustained response the national security crisis at our southern border requires,” said Governor Kristi Noem. “I am hopeful that this mission indicates the Biden Administration is waking up to the devastating situation at the border.”
The soldiers are members of the South Dakota National Guard’s 1742nd Transportation Company, stationed in Sioux Falls and Flandreau. These soldiers will be deployed for up to nine to twelve months and will be in a federal pay status. This deployment is in addition to the state active duty deployment that Governor Noem announced last week.
The guard members will provide non-law enforcement support to U.S. customs agents as part of the government’s Southwest Border mission. The Southwest Border mission involves security along the Mexican border in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The request for South Dakota guard members came from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Guard Bureau. About 3,000 Guard members from several states are involved in this federal mission. For security reasons, additional information about the guard members’ duties will not be provided.
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Does this make it all better ? Why not have done this from the beginning ? Poor instincts…
She has so much turnover there is no plan or consistency
How is she gonna make money on the guard if they are federalized?
It’s too bad we have a senile president and anti-American vice president who aren’t doing their jobs to ensure border security for the actual CITIZENS of the country.
This deployment is being done at the request of the Federal Government, what are you on about?
If Biden would close the border, finish the wall, enforce existing law, send illegals back home, end all the freebies that are enticing them to come, support the border patrol, the crisis would take care of itself. Simple. But this administration refuses. They care more for increasing democrat voters than they do for American citizens.
Let’s be honest, the wall isn’t the great investment that we were told it would be. We have seen countless videos of people and kids getting over the new improved version. I don’t think our border issues will ever stop as long as we are the leaders of the free world. Your favorite “news” station may stop talking about it, but the problem persists regardless of who is in the white house.
a tall, thick wall will make enforcement easier and make it harder to drive truckloads of drugs through.
The solution to children being dropped off by smugglers hired by parents is to treat the parents the same way US citizen parents would be treated if they endangered their children like that:,arrest and imprison them and put their kids into foster care until they turn 18.
Its mind blowing that if their children survive being thrown across the border and abandoned in the desert, they are reunited with the parents who are living here illegally and hired smugglers to do that to them.
Why do people put up fences around their homes? Why do businesses put up fences around their businesses?
It makes penetration harder, concentrates where and how attempts at penetration happen and allows security to respond to the threat.
1) Gaps in the fencing concentrate the places of entry allowing a concentrated mitigation effort in response.
2) With drones and other technologies, people climbing the fence take longer allowing Border Patrol to interdict.