{"id":14044,"date":"2019-02-11T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=14044"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:29:13","slug":"california-gov-gavin-newsom-to-pull-national-guard-from-californias-border-with-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=14044","title":{"rendered":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom to pull National Guard from California’s border with Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Gavin Newsom is rescinding former Gov. Jerry Brown’s deployment of California National Guard troops to the Mexican border, pulling most of the 360 troops off their current missions but leaving some in the area to combat transnational drug smuggling.<\/p>\n

“The border ’emergency’ is a manufactured crisis,” Newsom will say during his State of the State address Tuesday morning, according to advance excerpts provided by his office. “And California will not be part of this political theater.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham\u00a0ordered the majority of her state’s National Guard troops<\/a>\u00a0at the border to withdraw.<\/p>\n

Each of the 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia maintain National Guard units. During peacetime, the Guard is under the command of each state governor and adjutant general and typically is called upon to respond to emergencies and natural disasters. In times of war, the president can place the Guard under military command.<\/p>\n

The recent National Guard deployment to the Southern border is something of a hybrid. Federal authorities asked governors to provide Guard troops to assist with border security. The federal government is paying the cost of deployment. But the Guard troops remain under the authority of their state governor and adjutant general.<\/p>\n