US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to the Mexican border. Trump has said the situation at the southern border has “now reached a point of crisis.”US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a proclamation deploying National Guard troops to the Mexican border. The White House said the move would tighten security at the southern border and help local officials combat drug crime and illegal immigration. “The president has directed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security work together with our governors to deploy the National Guard to our southwest border to assist the Border Patrol,” Nielsen said. She added that, despite steps taken by the Trump administration, the levels of drug smuggling, illegal immigration and gang activity on the US-Mexico border continued to be “unacceptable.”

Source: Egypt Independent April 05, 2018 09:11 UTC