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Jaime Portillo works on his property along U.S. Highway 281 in El Calaboz. Portillo's property is divided by the border fence that runs along farmland in the Rio Grande Valley.
Hundreds of National Guard troops on Friday began deploying to the Rio Grande Valley to guard the Southwest border, after President Donald Trump last week urged their activation, saying our border is lawless and allows anyone to come through. We've played this song before, in 2014 when then Gov. Rick Perry activated 1,000 National Guard troops to our region as an uptick in illegal immigrants swelled through South Texas.