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Down party lines, the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved Gov. Chris Sununu’s request to spend $850,000 of state money to send National Guard troops to Texas.
It did not take long for immigrants’ rights defenders, peace groups, and faith leaders to register opposition to Gov. Chris Sununu’s request for $850,000 to fund the dispatch of New Hampshire National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border.
State Democratic lawmakers say the North Country doesn’t need more patrols. But for N.H.’s congressional delegation in Washington, border security is a major political issue
For more than a year, Gov. Chris Sununu has been calling for more to be done to secure the state's northern border, but the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire says new data shows there is not a significant number of illegal crossings into New Hampshire.