GOP border security group calls for sending National Guard to border

Published July 23, 2014 3:07pm ET



A group of House Republicans on Wednesday will call for sending the National Guard to the southern border, where a months-long surge in illegal immigration has flooded Texas with thousands of children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

House Speaker John Boehner last month assigned seven GOP lawmakers the task of recommending how to deal with the recent border surge, and the working group presented the plan to the party’s rank and file in a closed door meeting Wednesday.

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