Immigrant Activists: Trump Administration and Guard Members

immigrant activists: The construction and commitment of at least 1,600 Guard members from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas provoked fresh condemnation from immigrant activists and praise from border-state Republican governors, who will retain command-and-control of their state's Guard during a mission that for now has no firm end date, according to CTV. The only holdout border state was California, led by Democratic Gov. The Trump administration also announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will visit this week a stretch of new border wall breaking ground in New Mexico, putting additional focus on what Trump has called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime. Jerry Brown, who has not announced whether troops from his state's National Guard will participate and has repeatedly clashed with Trump over immigration policy. Tom Keegan, a spokesman for the California National Guard. The state was still reviewing Tuesday whether it will join the effort, said Lt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.