Eighty Arkansas National Guard troops have been deployed to Texas for a 30-day mission along the U.S. - Mexico border. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, mobilized the troops - along with 13 other republican governors - after a plea from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. According to numbers from the Department of Homeland Security, border crossings declined more than 70% since May.
AR National Guard deploys to Texas-Mexico border
![80 guardsmen deployed from Fort Chaffee in Fort Smith to the US-Mexico border this week.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d587bad/2147483647/strip/true/crop/732x402+0+0/resize/880x483!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7f%2F6a%2Ffaea733b41bf86b3b08f660f1b01%2Farnationalguard-732x402.png)
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Arkansas National Guard