Governor Jeff Landry announces he’s sending Louisiana National Guard troops to the southern border to assist the Texas National Guard in border security. The deployment is expected to cost the state three-million dollars and Landry says it’s well spent money.
“It helps to prepare our troops, it helps to train our troops and it also helps our neighbors in Texas,” said Landry.
Landry says several other states have also committed to sending their National Guard troops to the southern border.
He says the mission will help train the guardsmen for active duty and it will also help slow the amount of fentanyl entering the United States. He says many people know of someone who has died from a fentanyl overdose.
“Why don’t you look into the eyes of the mother, the father, the uncle, or the grandfather who has lost someone to fentanyl that we can directly trace to a border that is wide open that is letting cartel do as it pleases,” said Landry.
Landry says the deployment could begin next month and he would not disclose how many guardsmen will be sent to Texas. Louisiana National Guard Brigadier General Michael Greer says their missions will be assigned through the Texas National Guard and they will not be in charge of detaining illegal citizens crossing the border.
“If they encounter illegal border crossers they will refer those to local law enforcement who have a responsibility to make those arrests or do whatever it is under Texas law,” said Friloux.
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