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AR National Guard deploys to Texas-Mexico border

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80 guardsmen deployed from Fort Chaffee in Fort Smith to the US-Mexico border this week.
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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.

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