Trump on border security
President Trump tweeted Saturday saying he wants to send up to 4,000 National Guard troops to help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking at the border. CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid has more.
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President Trump tweeted Saturday saying he wants to send up to 4,000 National Guard troops to help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking at the border. CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid has more.
Texas and Arizona are sending troops to the Mexican border
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said about 150 Guard members would deploy next week
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said she's "deeply troubled by Trump's plan to militarize our border"
President Trump signed a proclamation saying a "drastic surge of illegal activity" at the border left his administration "no choice but to act"
President Trump signed a proclamation ordering National Guard troops to be deployed to the Mexican border. He says a "drastic surge of illegal activity" left his administration "no choice but to act." But it's still unclear what exactly those troops will do along the border when they get there. Chip Reid reports.
CBS News military and homeland security analyst Sandy Winnefeld, a retired Navy admiral and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss President Trump signing a proclamation ordering National Guard troops to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border and the inconsistency in statements from his administration regarding U.S. troops in Syria.
President says situation there "has now reached a point of crisis"
President Trump will call on the National Guard to deploy personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border
The president said American troops are needed to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until 700-800 miles of wall can be built
An entire Massachusetts neighborhood was without power Saturday, and it wasn't clear when residents would be able to return
"The devastation in Puerto Rico has set us back nearly 20 to 30 years," said Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez
The number of Texas National Guard troops could rise to 10,000 in coming days
White House's Sean Spicer insists there is "no effort to utilize the National Guard to round up immigrants"
White House press secretary said the Associated Press report was "100 percent not true"
The Secret Service has gamed out numerous scenarios for protecting the new president, from an active shooter to a weaponized drone
Esteban Santiago was charged with an act of violence at an international airport resulting in death -- which carries a maximum punishment of execution
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday many National Guard members who received undeserved bonuses did not know they were in the wrong, and should not be forced to pay back the money. Jan Crawford reports.
Efforts to collect the erroneous re-enlistment bonus payments to thousands of soldiers stopped due to "unreasonable burdens on service members”
The House Oversight Committee said it has launched an investigation into the California Guard’s attempt to reclaim the re-enlistment bonuses of thousands of soldiers
Officials say a woman drove up to the front gate of the base late Monday morning and told staff there she had an explosive device
Mohamed Jalloh quit the national guard after hearing Anwar al-Awlaki's lectures, and is charged with plotting a Fort Hood-style attack
Some soldiers claim they are being made scapegoats for receiving bonuses in a recruiting program the Army admits was badly mismanaged from the start
Governor has called in the National Guard, and a state of emergency has been declared after more than a foot of rain
Water crisis getting a growing response from the National Guard, as war of words over Gov. Snyder's culpability also boils over
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House, and a suspect identified as an Afghan national is in custody.
Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in the D.C. National Guard shooting.
President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies were charged with offenses in Georgia relating to the 2020 presidential election.
Russian officials say they have now received the revised U.S.-backed proposal to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after high-level talks between American and Ukrainian negotiators in Geneva.
A deadly blaze ripped through bamboo scaffolding on a multi-tower housing estate in Hong Kong, killing dozens of people and leaving hundreds more missing.
President Trump attacked a New York Times reporter as "third rate" and "ugly, both inside and out."
Russian athletes were forced to compete in International Judo Federation matches under a neutral banner due to the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but not any more.
The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical physicist at Harvard Medical School.
The Trump administration plans to deploy another 500 members of the National Guard to the streets of Washington, D.C., Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced, hours after two service members were shot.