Texas deploys 5K National Guard troops
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More than 60 rallies are planned across Texas in a nationwide protest targeting the Trump administration. Thousands of people are expected to protest across Texas this weekend as part of a coordinated wave of protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Missouri has joined Texas in preemptively activating the state's National Guard ahead of the "No Kings" protests planned at about 2,000 sites across the nation on June 14 against President Donald Trump. Both Republican-led states followed Trump's lead after he tapped the California National Guard to respond to protests in Los Angeles.
Local officials in San Antonio and Austin have said they expect state soldiers to be in those cities ahead of the protests this weekend.
Trump deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles in response to violent demonstrations against immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged to carry on with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown despite waves of unrest across the U.S.
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