California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is pulling hundreds of National Guard troops from the state’s southern border, in a rebuke to President Trump’s characterization of immigration.

“The border ’emergency’ is a manufactured crisis,” Newsom is expected to say say during his State of the State address Tuesday. “And California will not be part of this political theater.”

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