Pennsylvania Governor Rejects Call to Send National Guard Troops to Southern Border

Fourteen states have deployed their national guard to secure the border.

Texas National Guard agents prevent illegal immigrants from Venezuela from crossing a barbed wire fence to at the El Paso Sector Border after crossing the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Feb. 29, 2024. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

Pennsylvania National Guard troops are not going to patrol the southern border of Texas.

In a party-line 27-22 vote on Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s Republican-led Senate passed a resolution calling for Gov. Josh Shapiro to send members of the Pennsylvania National Guard to the southern U.S. border in Texas to assist the efforts to curb illegal immigration.