Indiana’s National Guard is sent to help other States in emergencies. (e.g., hurricanes) Statutes provide the Governor “shall order on state duty all or part of the national guard ” in times of war, invasion, insurrection or at any time the governor considers necessary. [FN1] 1/10

An email fr his campaign address [FN2] dated 02/10/24 says Gov Eric Holcomb is deploying our Nat’l Guard to assist w/the ongoing situation at the border” due to “Federal negligence enforcing immigration law” & securing our border jeopardizes nat’l & economic security. 2/10

Gov Holcomb asserts the “Biden administration and Congress aren’t taking action,” but ignores:
1) Senators from both parties worked for four months “to produce a bill that enough members of both parties could accept.” [FN3] They had it! However... 3/10

trump wants the “ongoing situation at the border” to continue. Sen Romney told reporters: “The border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. [T]hat he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling.” [FN4] 4/10

2) The Framers warned about the military. Hamilton wrote that nations “most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights.” The institutions “are standing armies.” [FN5] 5/10

3) The Federal government has supremacy in matters of immigration and status of aliens. [FN6] This emergency is real. Its making is on the current iteration of the GOP. Worse, a would-be dictator has ordered his little minions NOT to do the peoples’ business. 6/10

Putin gets NATO gutted & a free hand to slaughter the people of Ukraine IF trump is handed a stolen Oval Office as he was in 2016. So now the States deploy military forces: 50 today, how many tomorrow? What Gov Holcomb is doing is wrong, so very damn wrong. 7/10

Footnotes:
FN1. I.C. 10-16-7-7.
FN2. holcombforindiana.com is the campaign address; an official State government email address, usually, in Indiana, ends w/”.gov” 8/10

Footnotes:
FN3. Galston, “The collapse of bipartisan immigration reform: A guide for the perplexed,” Brookings Inst., 2/8/24.
FN4. Prokop, “Why Trump fears a Biden-GOP immigration deal,” Vox, 1/25/24. 9/10

Footnotes:
FN5. The Federalist No. 8, at 62 (Clinton Rossiter ed., 1961)
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FN6. Arizona v United States, 567 U.S. 387, 394-95 (2012). 10/10