The state-based military force is made up mainly of part-time soldiers and organized by state. It can be activated by the state governor or by the president. By Alyce McFadden and Anushka Patil The ...

The Texas National Guard has been deployed to Chicago — a move authorized by the Trump administration with cooperation from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The order sends 200 Texas troops to the windy city ...

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President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities such as Portland, Ore., and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and ...

Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers arrived in Illinois on Tuesday — with the blessing of Gov. Greg Abbott — to boost federal immigration authorities as the Trump administration doubled down on ...

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base. GONZALEZ.