Jerry Brown just agreed to send National Guard troops to the border

“Your funding for new staffing will allow the Guard to do what it does best: support operations targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers, and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state,” Brown said in a statement.

“Combating these criminal threats are priorities for all Americans — Republicans and Democrats,” he added, noting that California assisted previous presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, in similar situations.

“But let’s be crystal clear on the scope of this mission. This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal laws,” he stressed.