'Our National Guard is not for hire,' Major General Jeffery Marlette told a legislative budget committee on Wednesday.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who accepted a major donation from a Tennessee billionaire last month, did not tell the head of the state's National Guard that the money would be used for deployment to the U.S-Mexico border until after the mission plan was established, the Associated Press reported.
The cost of a two-month deployment will probably exceed $1 million, with Marlette estimating that the Guard will spend more than $1.3 million by mid-September. The state was responding to a request from Texas and Arizona to send law enforcement officers under an agreement between states to assist during emergencies
Marlette defended the deployment of 48 soldiers as helping halt the flow of drugs, calling the border a"doorway" for meth and other dangerous drugs in South Dakota. He said Guard members have seen evidence of Mexican cartels fighting over control of the border crossings.
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