Noem deploying troops to Mexican border again [Video]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – Gov. Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that she will once again deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, and she said the troops will help with “construction of a wall.”

Noem said 60 South Dakota National Guard soldiers will deploy “on a rolling basis over a three-month period” this spring. She said it will be the fifth deployment of South Dakota Guard troops to assist in border security efforts during her administration.

“The border is a warzone, so we’re sending soldiers,” Noem said in a news release. “These soldiers’ primary mission will be construction of a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, drug cartels, and human trafficking into the United States of America.”

She said the deployment answers a call from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to help that state respond to large numbers of people flowing across the southern border.

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