The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott (R), announced Wednesday that he is deploying the National Guard troops for state protests against immigration and the application of customs, which makes it the first governor to voluntarily use the military force in this wave of demonstrations.

“The Texas National Guard will be deployed in places throughout the State to guarantee peace and order,” he wrote on social networks. “The peaceful protest is legal. Darga of a person or property is illegal and will lead to arrest.”

The troops “will use all the tools and strategies to help the application of the law to maintain order,” he continued.

The demonstrations have emerged in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and other Texas cities after the ice raids rounding and stopping undocumented immigrants at work and in the streets, including people who present themselves to the hearings of the immigration courts and the young children who seek asylum.

The Texas Public Security Department said he arrested only five people during the protest on Monday in Austin, which brought hundreds of protesters. The city police department arrested another eight.

Governor Greg Abbott speaks during an invoice firm in the State Capitol on April 23.
Governor Greg Abbott speaks during an invoice firm in the State Capitol on April 23.

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The governor’s announcement arrives on the same day that a considerable protest is expected in downtown San Antonio on Wednesday night.

The mayor of San Antonio, Ron Nirenberg, said at a press conference early on Wednesday that Abbott had not given any notice of deployment of the National Guard, adding that his constituents are fed up with the “raw interpretations of the government of the immigration law and the cruel approach to human rights.”

Trump sent Los Angeles to the National Guard when the protests took off there last weekend. The governor of California Gavin Newsom (D) has rebuked Trump aloud for doing so without his request, and the State filed a lawsuit arguing that there was a “lack of evidence that the local police was unable to affirm control and guarantee public security.”

Amid the rejection, Trump announced that he was also deploying the marines in Los Angeles, despite the fact that the protests are largely peaceful.

Trump said Tuesday that he has finished playing with the rules when it comes to sending to the National Guard, overcoming the protocol to let the governors and local leaders make that call.

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“You have to remember, I’ve been here before and I went well for all the rules. And I waited for the governors to say:” Send to the National Guard. “They wouldn’t,” Trump said from the Oval office.

“I told myself, if that happens again, we have to make faster decisions, because they don’t want to do it,” he continued.