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DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops for immigration roundups, Pentagon reviewing request

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DHS asked for the troops to help carry out President Donald Trump 's “mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens’s.

Unlike the troops deployed at the southern border, these National Guard units would come from the states and be used to assist in deportation operations.

How the troops would be used may depend on whether they remain under state governors’ control.