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of defense and their briefing expected to start any minute now. plus, texas governor greg abbott s plan to handle the impending crisis, promising to keep bussing migrants to democratic cities. we re following the latest developments here. let s bring in julia ainsley who is following this story closely now with the white house confirming the biden administration will be sending active duty troops to the southern border. what do we know from the administration? well, lindsey, we know this plan has hardened up quickly. they were weighing it over the weekend and just now, we know there s about to be an announcement. they ll be sending 1500 active duty troops in addition to the 2500 men and women from the national guard already stationed at the border. that will bring them to 4,000 which is still lower than the more than 5500 active duty troops the trump administration sent to the border. these troops will not be interacting with migrants one-on-one. they won t be arr ....
Police stations here. there s nowhere to put them. they re running out of space as it is and this is before title 42 s expulsions are reversed. the mayor was essentially saying, please stop doing this and abbott said, no, we will absolutely not stop. talk to the white house. also isn t mayor lightfoot saying, look, texas border states, they have more federal resources that illinois is not getting? absolutely. that is her point, one of her biggest point, that there s a funding mechanism that follows each one of these immigrants who are coming over the border. chicago does not receive those federal that federal funding. that s essentially blowing up budgets here right now. the state is stretched, the city is stretched and they re trying to do what they re able to do, all these human services organizations, they re all stretched and they re asking for help. actually, we also reported recently that lori lightfoot ....