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   Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida National Guard and State Guard   
   members to Texas to assist with placing razor wire along the southern   
   border, DeSantis announced Thursday.   
      
   The Supreme Court ruled last week that the federal government had the   
   power to remove razor wire and other barriers the Texas government erected   
   at the border, but Texas National Guard continued placing the wire last   
   week.   
      
   Florida will send up to 1,000 National Guard members and State Guard   
   volunteers to assist Texas "relatively shortly."   
      
   “The goal is to help Texas fortify this border, help them strengthen the   
   barricades, help them add barriers, help them add the wire that they need   
   to so that we can stop this invasion once and for all,” DeSantis said from   
   Jacksonville’s Cecil Airport Thursday morning. “And the states have to   
   band together.”   
      
   DeSantis repeated the inflammatory language Republicans have used to   
   describe the tens of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants   
   arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Those seeking asylum typically turn   
   themselves in to Border Patrol agents between ports of entry. Other   
   migrants, including many from Mexico, try to sneak in and evade border   
   agents.   
      
   The razor wire hasn't discouraged migrants; many, including children, are   
   risking serious injury as they cross through the reams of concertina.   
      
   DeSantis lauded the Florida State Guard last week in Kissimmee, telling   
   attendees at a press conference on semiconductor manufacturing that he   
   wanted the volunteer guard to help control immigration at Texas southern   
   border.   
      
   Bills currently being considered by the Florida Legislature (HB 1551/SB   
   1694) allow DeSantis to send the guard to other states.   
      
   The State Guard became inactive in 1947 after being established in World   
   War II to replace deployed Florida National Guard members.   
      
   DeSantis revived the State Guard in 2022, and the Legislature increased   
   funding from $10 million to $107.6 million. The force tripled from 400 to   
   1,500 members last year.   
      
   Other Republican-led states have loaned their own National Guard troops on   
   border missions to Texas, including Oklahoma and Iowa.   
      
   Contributing: Lauren Villagren, USA TODAY   
      
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/01/desantis-sends-   
   florida-national-state-guard-texas-border/72437267007/   
      
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