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Reaction To Trump's National Guard Border Plan Ranges From Yay, Nay To 'Well...'

Trump's decision to send National Guard troops to the border has won support from GOP governors. Other officials on the border have expressed some reservations.

President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he wants to send between 2,000 and 4,000 National Guard members to the southern border with Mexico "and we'll probably keep them, or a large portion of them, until such time as we get the wall."

It was the first time Trump attached numbers to his desire to put the National Guard on the border.

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