Newsom's office said in a release that the boost in border personnel was to crack down on 'deadly drugs' being smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has more than doubled the number of National Guard troops along his state's southern border with Mexico in efforts to crack down on 'deadly drugs.'In a news release Thursday, Newsom's office said that California's National Guard County Drug Task Force operations have been boosted from 155 service members to nearly 400. The move comes as state and federal officials grapple with a spike in border encounters in recent years.
According to CalGuard Major General Matthew Beevers, the state Counter Drug Taskforce deployed 30 service members in 2022 to points of entry in Southern California at San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate and Calexico.'Due to significant initial success, in 2023, we doubled our force across those Ports of Entry,' Beevers added, as quoted in the release.
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