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Unidentified official says Texas National Guard deputized to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Summary
An unnamed official said the Texas National Guard has been authorized and deputized to carry out Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) functions, and said the Texas Department of Public Safety is embedded with ICE statewide to assist arrests, detention and deportations.
An unidentified official said they have authorized the Texas National Guard to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and that the Guard has been deputized to carry out the full range of ICE enforcement activities.
"I have authorized our National Guard that have been on the border for about 4 years now," the official said. "They have the full authority, to assist ICE and have been deputized, to assist ICE doing everything ICE would do such as apprehending, arresting, deporting, soup to nuts of what ICE will do." The same speaker said the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) "is embedded with ICE on operations across the entire state of Texas, to root out and to…
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