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The Governor of California Gavin Newsom has announced plans to pull a large number of National Guard troops from the southern border of the state with Mexico. It is a clear refusal of the security crisis claims of the Trump administration. It is noteworthy that the deadline to avoid another partial government shutdown over border security talks isn’t too far. Los Angeles Times reported, Newsom has planned to order the pull off at least 360 National Guard troops deployed at the U.S-Mexico border.

The L.A Times reported California Governor said his state rejects to participation in the White House’s “political theater” and will instead refocus on the real threats facing our state. The governor plans to sign a general order to have troops redeployed to provide support on two initiatives, instead of dedicating their time to border security. It was also said that wildfire prevention efforts and operations to counter drugs and cartels in California, including surveillance at international points of entry.

Newsom said, “The Border ‘emergency’ is a manufactured crisis. This is our answer to the White House: No more division”. The message of Newsom to the White House comes just days after New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham made her own statement. Grisham ordered the removal of most of her state’s National Guard troops from the border just hours before President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union speech.

Lujan Grisham said in her own statement, New Mexico would not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops. She rejected the “federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country”. She added that some troops would remain stationed in Hidalgo County and surrounding southwestern New Mexico counties in order to help with the ongoing humanitarian needs of communities there. She had seen large groups of families, women, and children crossing the border during the recent months.