An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo said that National Guard troops would assist in the deportation process for ...

A Houston man once trusted to protect the border has now been convicted of smuggling migrants. What prosecutors revealed in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The National Guard Bureau and the U.S. Department of Defense have announced the establishment of a State ...

Roughly 2,000 National Guard troops across multiple states are expected to be mobilized to help Immigration and Customs ...

Rep. Nancy Mace claimed that she will deploy the national guard against poor immigrants during a press conference she held on ...

That law authorizes the president to "call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State" in three circumstances: 1) when the United States "is invaded or is in danger ...

WASHINGTON – The possibility of the Trump administration sending National Guard troops on immigration raids outside their own state could cause a legal clash between states – and with the ...

As for the former, a federal statute, 10 U.S.C. section 12406, authorizes the president to take over a state’s National Guard if “the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions ...

National Guard members can be deployed by the governors of their resident states and by the president of the U.S. Statewide mobilizations often are to support communities during and after natural ...

Another law, the Posse Comitatus Act, generally prohibits the military from being used within the United States. The 2,000 National Guard troops are only deployed to protect ICE officers.

By serving with units near or in the community from which they come, National Guard Soldiers and Airmen provide a community-connected presence for our military throughout the United States.

At the time, the National Guard made up 15% of the 67,000 troops in Afghanistan and 7% of the 144,000 in Iraq. State efforts to seize authority over the Guard have been a relatively obscure issue ...