The White House has drafted a memo calling for the Arkansas National Guard to round up hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Arkansas. But this can’t happen without Governor Asa Hutchinson's approval. We demand that Governor Asa Hutchinson keeps our state’s National Guard out of Donald Trump’s Deportation Force.
Why is this important?
According to the Associated Press, the Trump administration is considering a plan mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up millions of undocumented immigrants in states along the southern border. This includes states like California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; as well as states adjacent to border states, like Oregon, Nevada, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, and Louisiana.