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In a Historic United States First, National Guard Soldiers Start Arresting Illegal Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border

By Thomas A. Smith

AUSTIN, Texas In a dive into new political and legal water, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has initiated the first-ever border security operations in which thousands of National Guard troops newly imbued with civilian arrest authority and given 40 hours of traditional police training in the use of deadly force have started handcuffing illegally entering migrants on state trespassing charges.

Small-scale soldier arrest operations began quietly this week as an unprecedented addition to the state s ongoing Operation Lone Star in close physical coordination with a pre-existing border surge of some 1,000 Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers concentrated in Val Verde and Starr counties, but also expected to happen elsewhere. Abbott has been signaling for weeks that he was preparing a more aggressive use of the National Guard.

via cis.org

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