{"id":74387,"date":"2019-02-11T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=74387"},"modified":"2019-02-11T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:31:08","slug":"governor-newsom-announces-draw-down-of-california-national-guard-on-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=74387","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom Announces Draw Down of California National Guard on Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA… Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that he has signed a General Order rescinding previous authorization for California National Guard operations at the U.S.-Mexico border that allowed California National Guard personnel to perform duties traditionally undertaken by the federal government there. \u201cThe Border \u2018emergency\u2019 is a manufactured crisis. And California will not be part of this political theater. Which is why I have given the National Guard a new mission. They will refocus on the real threats facing our state,\u201d said Governor Newsom. \u201cThis is our answer to the White House: No more division, xenophobia or nativism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Currently, approximately 360 members of the California National Guard are deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border. These National Guard personnel were deployed at the request of the White House to provide support for the federal government in border operations.<\/p>\n

Last week, President Trump announced he will be deploying 3,750 U.S. military personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border. Governor Newsom\u2019s order cites this development as yet more reason for California to reprioritize its National Guard deployment.<\/p>\n

Governor Newsom\u2019s order redeploys these personnel to focus on the actual threats facing the State of California. It does so by:<\/p>\n

Authorizing 110 personnel to prepare for the upcoming fire season by supporting CAL FIRE in fire prevention and fire suppression efforts;
\nAuthorizing the expansion of the California National Guard\u2019s statewide Counterdrug Task Force by at least 150 personnel; and
\nAuthorizing 100 personnel to conduct counter narcotics search and seizure operations targeting transnational criminal organization around ports of entry.
\nThe guard will begin making preparations to carry out the order immediately and draw down by March 31, 2019.<\/p>\n

The Governor today also sent a letter to Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan requesting financial support from the federal government to expand the California National Guard\u2019s statewide Counterdrug Task Force, starting with \u2013 but not limited to \u2013 redeploying 150 personnel from the border. The text of the order issued by Governor Newsom in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the California National Guard is available here.<\/p>\n

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Sacramento, CA… Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that he has signed a General Order rescinding previous authorization for California National Guard operations at the U.S.-Mexico border that allowed California National Guard personnel to perform duties traditionally undertaken by the federal government there. \u201cThe Border \u2018emergency\u2019 is a manufactured crisis. And California will not be part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC4444.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}