South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sends 50 National Guard troops to Texas - privately funded

[underpants]

I just went looking around Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-dakota-kristi-noem-troops-texas-tackle-border-crisis

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday announced that her state is sending dozens of National Guard troops to Texas to help the Lone Star State deal with the continuing crisis at the southern border, after an appeal for help from Gov. Greg Abbott.

Noem announced that 50 South Dakota National Guard troops would be sent to Texas to secure the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Her office said the deployment will last for between 30 and 60 days, and that it will be paid for via a private donation.

South Dakota is the latest state to respond to that appeal from Arizona and Texas. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this month that his state would send 50 law enforcement officers to help tackle the surge.

[pwb]

1. Pukes are trying to create rage with staged events

like this.

[Aristus]

2. I don't understand.

If military troops are paid for privately, doesn't that make them mercenaries?

[Me.]

4. That's What I'm Wondering

is it even legal?

[dchill]

11. Probably not. Does that matter?

[Me.]

20. Considering Nothing Ever Has Repercussions/Consequences

no

[Bev54]

6. It would seem that way, I wonder if the troops get a choice of

whether they want to go or not.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Are they for hire to the highest bidder?

This could get much more ugly.

[underpants]

13. Those cartels have lots of money

Just saying

[underpants]

10. DeathSatan from the article

In a press conference, DeSantis said that mission funding was still a "point of discussion."

"Typically, if someone would help us, you know, we would pick up some of their funding and so that is how we would hope that it goes," the governor said. "But we do not anticipate getting any federal funds."

[Strelnikov_]

22. Nor do I. And, does this not have legal implications if a soldier is injured?

Who pays? The soldier signed up as a state employee, essentially. Now, they are being hired out to a private entity, essentially working as private sector security guards.

[madinmaryland]

3. Is that legal? Why are public servants being funded by private entities?

Something smells rotten.

[Norbert]

5. I thought they were being sent to fix the power grid

But silly me. They are being sent for something way more important.

[underpants]

12. Hey hey.

Ixnay on the idgray talk

[madinmaryland]

8. Is that legal? Why are public servants being funded by private entities?

Something smells rotten.

[bottomofthehill]

9. Privatization of the Guard, wow, that is interesting.

[struggle4progress]

14. Does SD have any MOUs allowing enforcement of immigration law?

[dv421]

15. I'm not a lawyer

but if one of these troops paid for by a private donation accidentally or incorrectly shoots someone, wouldn't that open the private funders to civil liability?

[Hekate]

16. Is that legal?

[haele]

17. Ummm, no? Is she turning the SDNG into a private army?

If a foundation from Tennessee can pay to have Federally paid and outfitted troops to go from one state to another, then "Governor" Norm has just made the SDNG a private army.

The Pentagon must act and cut all funding for those 50, their supporting units, and that operation immediately.

Let her raise up, pay, and supply her own group of swaggering wannabes to send out for cash. Private funding = mercenaries, and that isn't what the National Guard is supposed to be.

Haele

[Hugin]

18. But, But, But, I thought there were tens... Scratch thet, hundreds of thousands of millions of...

eeeeelegal aileuns crossing the un-former guy walled boooaaarrder!

50 NG will be stampeded in seconds! It's a suercide missshun'!



Noem is just jealous because she's the head inmate in a landlocked asylum.

[Hortensis]

19. OMG. DeSantis/FL said he'd send 50 state law enforcement officers to TX

to help with the phony border "crisis." Wondering about the technical legalities of all this for sure, but I am absolutely sure these giant political PR stunts are both lawless and completely unprincipled.

[underpants]

21. Yeah 100 people total

[Hortensis]

23. :) Well, "giant" in the blatant corruption of these political stunts.

I mean, the National Guard being used in such a way! These people degrade everything they touch.