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Troops are heading to the u.s./mexico border this weekend in response to the president's order for tighter security, texas began sending 250 troops, arizona will follow suit with 150. this is the first wave of up to 4,000 approved last night by defense secretary james mattis. president trump tweeting "we are sealing up our southern border, the people of our great country want safety and security, the dems have been a disaster on this very important issue." i'll bring in hipolito acosta, a former border patrol agent and author of several books, including one called "deep in the shadows" which i...

And border protection standing by their screen left. we start with william la jeunesse in los angeles. as california's governor is responding early this morning. hi, william. >> each state guard answers to a governor. oregon and montgomery say no troops. the ones run by republicans say yes. governors are willing to send troops to the border. that is still developing. homeland security has only reached out to some states. if asked the oregon governor has said no if asked. >> there has been no planning. there has been absolutely no collaboration with the states. this is just something that the p...

Crossing the border. what they will do is do reconnaissance and surveillance, conduct logistic operation. maybe take some of the administrative burden off of the border patrol. they're more in a support role than in a direct confrontation role. >> dana: when president bush and president obama sent guard troops to support the border patrol, did that have a good impact on trying to push back people from coming here illegally? >> yeah. the action reports on it is that illegal trafficking went down rather dramatically. i think this will not be permanent. this will be a temporary situation because ...

Security secretary could not say how many troops or how much it would cost. as for what they'll do, u.s. troops cannot do law enforcement functions such as arresting illegal border crossers. this would be a support role, such as helping with surveillance. >> it will be strong. it will be as many as is needed to fill the gaps that we have today. that's what i can tell you. so, we'll go through and make sure. >> reporter: just last week, the president also suggested he would use military funds to build his border wall. does the president have the authority to use money that congress has aprop ra...

How many national guard soldiers will be involved, exactly what they will be doing. some of that is a little bit clearer today based on both what secretary homeland security kristin nielsen said earlier today and then what we're hearing about the national guard soldiers hearing about more of a support role. they might drive and whatnot but they won't actually be involved in law enforcement or interdiction of immigrants that might be crossing the border. it seems like the cell is the one who is going to coordinate all these efforts here and that, you know, dod, the pentagon, and dhs are the one...