Governor Holcomb orders Indiana National Guard to Texas to help secure border

Gov. Eric Holcomb is deploying the Indiana National Guard to the southern border to assist Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in his fight with the federal government over border security. Fifty Indiana soldiers will spend 10 months supporting the Texas National Guard's mission, beginning in mid-March, Holcomb announced Friday. “Federal negligence enforcing immigration law and the failure to secure our country’s border jeopardizes national and economic security, affecting every state, including Indiana,” he said. “We’ve worked too hard in Indiana attacking the drug epidemic for more Hoosier lives to be put...