Trump signs proclamation sending National Guard to US-Mexico border

US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation to send the National Guard to the country's border with Mexico. Fox News reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at the White House press briefing said the signing would be done in conjunction with governors and that the administration hoped the



deployment would begin immediately. 

She said, the President has directed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security work together with their governors to deploy their National Guard to their southwest border to assist the border patrol.