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New Hampshire to send 15 National Guardsmen to Texas' Mexican border
- New Hampshire lawmakers on Friday approved a request by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to deploy 15 National Guard volunteers to the Mexican border in Texas.
- The move comes after the governor named fentanyl as the Granite State’s most pressing health crisis.
- “There is no bigger health crisis in the state right now than losing 400-500 people a year, every year for the past 10 years,” Sununu said of the epidemic, noting that New Hampshire has “put a lot of money and a lot of effort into it.”
New Hampshire lawmakers approved Republican Gov. Chris Sununu’s request Friday to send 15 National Guard volunteers to the Texas border with Mexico after he called fentanyl the state’s most serious health crisis.
Along with a dozen other Republican governors, he traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas, earlier this month to support Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been in a standoff with the Biden administration since Texas began denying access to U.S. Border Patrol agents at a park along the Rio Grande. The governors of Montana and Georgia also announced they’ll help Texas control illegal crossings by sending National Guard members, a trend that began in 2021.
“There is no bigger health crisis in the state right now than losing 400-500 people a year, every year for the past 10 years,” Sununu told the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Committee. “We’ve put a lot of money and a lot of effort into it. This is less than a million dollars to do something that should’ve been done by somebody else, but they’re unwilling to do it.”
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That “somebody” is President Joe Biden, said Sununu, who said states must step up and help Texas. “The states are going to do what we do best, we’re going to stand up and protect our citizens.”
Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu waves in the leadup to his final State of the State address on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Concord, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Democrats on the committee blamed Republicans for torpedoing a bipartisan border security plan in Congress.
“The real issue is the Congress funding what they should be funding to protect the southern border,” said Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, a Democrat from Manchester. “Our 15 guys aren’t going to make a great deal of difference. But indeed … your ability as a high ranking public official and a member of the Republican party, I think that effort should be spent getting the Republicans in Congress to come up with the money.”
Rep. Peter Leishman, whose son died of a fentanyl overdose, argued that the money would be better spent on law enforcement or addiction prevention and treatment programs in New Hampshire.
“No respect to the Guard, but 15? What kind of difference is that going to make on thousands of miles of border where people are just flowing across unchecked?” he said. “The $850,000 would be better spent here in New Hampshire.”
But Republicans outnumber Democrats 6-4 on the committee, and they agreed with Sununu.
Senate President Jeb Bradley said it’s entirely appropriate for Sununu to seek the money under the state’s civil emergency law.
“If 400 deaths from fentanyl per year since 2015 is not a civil emergency, I don’t know what is,” he said.
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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