EL PASO, TX (WCBD) – Governor Henry McMaster is visiting South Carolina Nationwide Guard troopers stationed on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Throughout the governor’s two-day journey, he, and the state’s Adjutant Normal, MG Van McCarty, will meet with members of the 2-151st Aviation Regiment and 1052nd Transportation Firm at a navy set up and Customs and Border Safety sector headquarters close to the border.
It comes as GOP lawmakers from throughout the nation, together with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, name for cameras to have entry to federal services holding hundreds of unaccompanied kids touring alone throughout the Mexico border.
“There’s a humanitarian disaster on our southern border and inaction is placing our nationwide safety in danger,” stated Gov. McMaster on Friday evening.
He visited the border wall in El Paso, Texas on Friday the place he noticed firsthand what members of the SC Nationwide Guard have been doing to safe the border.
“The women and men of the South Carolina Nationwide Guard are selflessly serving our nation within the midst of a severe disaster at our nation’s southern border,” stated Gov. Henry McMaster. “I’m grateful to have the chance to fulfill with these courageous South Carolinians and listen to instantly from them about their heroic efforts and the challenges they’re dealing with.”
Gov. McMaster can be receiving in-person briefings from the nation’s senior navy management charged with supporting and supplementing federal efforts to safe the southern border.
The journey continued on Saturday with a cease in Del Rio, Texas the place he met with troopers on the 1052nd Command Put up.
Sen. Graham recently toured the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona the place he mentioned the impacts of reversing the ‘Stay in Mexico’ coverage and border safety.
