Texas Reduces Number of Troops at Southern Border Amid Response to Planned Protests

National Guardsman stands watch in Eagle Pass, Texas.

The Texas National Guard is deploying thousands of its troops in response to planned protests of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign and is even scaling down some of its forces at the U.S. southern border at the same time. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that he had deployed more than 5,000 of the […]