Sandoval bucks Trump’s plan for border troops

By Andrew Harnik, AP

RENO — Gov. Brian Sandoval opposes President Trump’s current proposal to send thousands of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal officials fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

Sandoval’s press secretary Mary-Sarah Kinner said in an email to the Associated Press on Friday that Sandoval doesn’t believe the current proposal would be “an appropriate use of the Nevada National Guard.”

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