Sununu deploying New Hampshire National Guard to US-Mexico border

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) will deploy two items of his state’s Nationwide Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday afternoon, his workplace introduced.

“New Hampshire is grateful for the heroic women and men of our Nationwide Guard,” Sununu mentioned in a press release. 

“They answered the decision to serve throughout the COVID pandemic, and at the moment are answering our nation’s name — deploying to the continuing humanitarian disaster alongside our southern border,” Sununu continued. “As these courageous women and men deploy, New Hampshire stands by our Nationwide Guard and we want everybody a secure and speedy return house.”

Sununu will communicate at a deployment ceremony on Monday afternoon in Pembroke, N.H. at a Nationwide Guard regional coaching middle.

He’s the newest GOP governor to attract consideration to frame safety after migrant encounters final fiscal yr surpassed 2 million, hitting an all-time file.

Three Republicans — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — have bused or flown migrants to Democrat-run cities in latest weeks to criticize the Biden administration’s border insurance policies and share the burden felt by overwhelmed border communities. 

These efforts fueled fury amongst Democrats, who argue the relocations cruelly flip migrants into political pawns.

Sununu’s workplace mentioned the deployment will comprise roughly 164 troopers, who will conduct surveillance alongside the border however are prohibited from being involved with unlawful migrants.

The Nationwide Guardsmen are instructed to inform Customs and Border Safety of border crossings they encounter.

A unit of the New Hampshire Nationwide Guard beforehand went to the border from Oct. 2020 via Nov. 2021, which Sununu’s workplace mentioned assisted in 207,320 apprehensions, $893 million in unlawful drug seizures and 20 migrant lives saved.

Through the Trump administration, Sununu pledged he wouldn’t use New Hampshire Nationwide Guard sources for “separating households” alongside the border.

Sununu’s newest deployment entails 44 troopers from the 941st Navy Police Battalion HQ, the unit’s first deployment, and 120 troopers from the 237th Navy Police Firm, which final deployed to Afghanistan roughly a decade in the past, his workplace mentioned.