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FILE - In this June 21, 2006 file photo, members of the California National Guard work next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego. President Donald Trump slammed California Gov. Jerry Brown's posture on sending National Guard troops to the Mexican border Tuesday, April 17, 2018, even as Brown said he was nearing agreement on joining the president's mission and that his troops were &quot;chomping at the bit ready to go.&quot; (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

California reaches deal on National Guard border mission

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sat Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump says there’s a ‘revolution’ going on in California

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 21, 2006 file photo, members of the California National Guard work next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego. President Donald Trump slammed California Gov. Jerry Brown's posture on sending National Guard troops to the Mexican border Tuesday, April 17, 2018, even as Brown said he was nearing agreement on joining the president's mission and that his troops were &quot;chomping at the bit ready to go.&quot; (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Brown says agreement reached on California guard deployment

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FILE - In this June 22, 2016 file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. California Gov. Jerry Brown agreed Wednesday, April 11, 2018, to deploy 400 National Guard troops at President Donald Trump's request, but not all will head to the U.S.-Mexico border as Trump wants and none will enforce federal immigration enforcement. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

The Latest: California sees agreement near on border troops

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Gov. Jerry Brown addresses the crowd at a victims right rally Monday, April 9, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Brow, who has backed several measures to reduce criminal penalties has warned voters and lawmakers agates reappearing the changes. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Jerry Brown: ‘Is this a war on California?’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 13, 2018, file photo, a motorcade carrying President Donald Trump drives along the border in San Diego. California has rejected the federal government's initial plans for National Guard troops to the border because the work is considered too closely tied to immigration enforcement. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Latest: US sees room for California pact on border

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This section of the border wall that was recently built near the Mexican town of Anapra shows the new type of "bollard" wall that be built near Santa Teresa, N.M., Monday, April 9, 2018. The head of the U.S. Border Patrol sector that includes part of West Texas and all of New Mexico said Monday he met with leaders of the New Mexico National Guard to begin discussions about what will be required and their capabilities. (Ruben R. Ramirez/The El Paso Times via AP)

Donald Trump thanks Jerry Brown for sending National Guard to the border

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

FILE--In this March 13, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes in San Diego. In his threat Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to use the military on the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised wall is built, Trump again heaped blame on his predecessor, Barack Obama, and congressional Democrats for creating a dangerous and dysfunctional border. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)

Trump decision to deploy troops to border draws some surprising support: Poll

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

The International border, composed of barbed wire and &quot;X&quot; barriers, cuts through Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, right, and Nogales, Ariz., as seen Tuesday, April 10, 2018 near Nogales, Ariz. The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico on Monday committed 1,600 Guard members to the border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what he's called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime. (AP Photo/Matt York)

The Latest: US Homeland Security chief postpones border trip

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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks to Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation Monday, April 9, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Some National Guard members start arriving at U.S.-Mexico border

By Nomaan Merchant and Bob Christie - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2007, file photo, private contractor Joe Romero, of Tucson, Ariz., working for Wackenhut Transportation, finishes processing a suspected illegal immigrant picked up in the Tucson Sector near the Arizona-Mexico border in Sasabe, Ariz. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policy aimed at people entering the United States illegally for the first time on the Mexican border. His directive Friday, April 6, 2018, tells federal prosecutors in border states to put more emphasis on charging people with illegal entry, which has historically been treated as a misdemeanor offense for those with few or no previous encounters with border authorities. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

The Latest: Mexico evaluates immigration cooperation with US

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South Carolina’s governor offers troops for border to Texas

By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 19, 2007 file photo, a National Guard unit patrols the Arizona-Mexico border in Sasabe, Ariz. On Friday, April 6, 2018, Arizona and Texas announced that they were preparing to deploy National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to President Donald Trump’s call for more border security. From 2006 to 2008, the Guard fixed vehicles, maintained roads, repaired fences and performed ground surveillance. Its second mission in 2010 and 2011 involved more aerial surveillance and intelligence work. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

Trump wins pledges of 1,600 troops for Mexico border duty

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Walker voices support for sending troops to Mexico border

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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, walks with former president George W. Bush during a wreath laying ceremony to honor the victims of the U.S. Embassy bombing on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The president is traveling in Tanzania on the final leg of his three-country tour in Africa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama, George W. Bush deployed National Guard to border before Trump

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

In this April 5, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up during a roundtable discussion on tax policy in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Trump was having it both ways over the past week, portraying a &quot;crisis&quot; at the Mexico border that demands the use of National Guard troops while boasting of a huge drop in illegal border crossings there.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump is having it both ways on border policy

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN - Associated Press

File - In this Jan. 19, 2007 file photo, Staff Sgt. Kevin Black, 36, of Kenmore, N.Y., of the New York National Guard keeps an eye on a group of suspected illegal immigrants near the Arizona-Mexico border in Sasabe, Ariz. National guard contingents in U.S. states that border Mexico say they are waiting for guidance from Washington to determine what they will do following President Donald Trump's proclamation directing deployment to fight illegal immigration and drug smuggling. The National Guard in Texas said in a statement Thursday, April 5, 2018, said the deployment is in &quot;very early planning stages.&quot; (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

What happened when Bush, Obama sent troops to Mexico border

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 19, 2007 file photo, a National Guard unit patrols the Arizona-Mexico border in Sasabe, Ariz. On Friday, April 6, 2018, Arizona and Texas announced that they were preparing to deploy National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to President Donald Trump’s call for more border security. From 2006 to 2008, the Guard fixed vehicles, maintained roads, repaired fences and performed ground surveillance. Its second mission in 2010 and 2011 involved more aerial surveillance and intelligence work. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

Arizona sending 150 Guard troops to Mexico border next week

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The Latest: Trump move to end ‘catch-and-release’ policy

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FILE - In this July 29, 2010, file photo, a U.S. National Guard vehicle guards covered under camouflage fabric sits atop a mountain next to the border fence near Sonoyta, Mexico. The U.S. National Guard faces a vastly different landscape than it did on its last two deployments to the Mexican border but its role is shaping up much the same: moving Border Patrol agents from behind-the-scenes jobs to making arrests on the front lines. Arrests had fallen by about half and hundreds of miles of border barriers were added by May 2010, when Operation Phalanx sent 1,200 troops to the border amid backlash to the killing of an Arizona rancher. Crossers were still largely Mexican men entering the country through Arizona deserts. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

California governor hedges on sending troops to border

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press