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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she will join a growing list of Republican governors sending law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press

June 29, 2021, 9:02 PM

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that she will join a growing list of Republican governors sending law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico.

Noem's announcement that she will send up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to Texas comes as the GOP ramps up a political fight with President Joe Biden over border security. The issue has drawn a host of prominent GOP figures: former President Donald Trump was expected to travel to the border this week and Republican governors from Florida, Nebraska and Iowa have all committed to sending law enforcement officers for border security.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this month announced plans to build more barriers along the border.

Abbott's new push has been criticized as political theater, but he has defended the plan, saying the number of border crossers remains high. The governor said he will use $250 million in state money and crowdsourced financing for the barriers, although the timeline and cost for the push are unclear. It also faces potential court challenges from the federal government.

Large numbers of migrants have been showing up at the U.S. border with Mexico, with many turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol agents in seeking legal asylum status. But the numbers of families and children traveling without their parents crossing into the U.S. have dropped sharply since March and April, while the encounters with single adults have remained high.

A private donation will fund the cost of sending the South Dakota National Guard troops, Noem said. The deployment is expected to last from 30 to 60 days, while the other states involved are sending law enforcement officers for roughly two-week stints.

Noem, who is seen as a potential presidential contender, drew a distinction between her decision to send the National Guard and other governors who are sending state police officers.

“The border is a national security crisis that requires the kind of sustained response only the National Guard can provide,” she said in a statement. “We should not be making our own communities less safe by sending our police or Highway Patrol to fix a long-term problem President Biden’s Administration seems unable or unwilling to solve.”

The governor's spokesman Ian Fury said the donation for the deployment came from Willis and Reba Johnson’s Foundation. Willis Johnson, a Tennessee-based founder of an online used car auction called Copart, regularly makes large contributions to Republicans, including $200,000 to the Trump Victory Committee last year.

Fury said “the governor welcomes any such donations to help alleviate the cost to South Dakota taxpayers,” but declined to provide estimates on the cost of the deployment, citing “security reasons.”

However, Democratic state Sen. Reynold Nesiba said the fact Noem was using a donor to pay for the deployment showed it was not a “ real priority” for the state, but instead gave her “political cover.” He said he was looking into whether using a private donation to fund the deployment is legal.

“This could set a dangerous precedent to allow anonymous political donors to call the governor and dispatch the Guard whenever they want,” he said.

Meanwhile, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he has declined a request from Texas to provide state troopers. Hutchinson said sending National Guard troops was still an option and has asked the adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard to evaluate that possibility.

“Because of the public safety needs we have here in Arkansas and because of the important work they’re doing here, I will not be sending the Arkansas State Police to the border,” he told reporters.

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Hallmark now lets you send real cards from your phone in your own handwriting. Here’s how to try it for free. - KTLA

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Ahead of Trump border visit, Republicans mobilize effort to send law enforcement relief to Texas, Arizona - Fox News

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EXCLUSIVE: The largest conservative caucus in the House is calling on their state governors to send National Guard troops or law enforcement personnel to the southern border ahead of former President Donald Trump's trip to Texas on Wednesday.

The Republican Study Committee (RSC) on Tuesday fired off a dozen letters to their respective home state governors pressuring them to answer the call of Texas and Arizona to send extra law enforcement resources to the border to combat the immigration influx. 

In one such example, Wisconsin GOP Reps. Tom Tiffany, Glenn Grothman and Scott Fitzgerald sent a letter to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urging him to send personnel immediately to stem the "crisis at America's southern border."

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"Wisconsin should help where we can because every state is now a border state," Tiffany said in a statement. "Having traveled to our southern border multiple times I have seen [President] Biden’s Border Crisis firsthand, it is past time to end this unprecedented invasion."

The letter campaign comes as a couple dozen members of the RSC are en route to Texas where they'll join Trump to tour the border and draw attention to what they say are failures of President Biden's immigration policies. There's been a massive surge of migrants coming to the border in recent months – with more than 180,000 encounters in May alone.

"Since the Biden administration won’t act, it’s up to Republicans and state leaders to secure our border and keep our nation safe," said RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who is coordinating the border trip and state pressure campaign.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey earlier this month penned a joint letter to 48 other governors asking for help during the border crisis, which they called a "disaster" and an "emergency." The Republicans urged their fellow governors to "send all available law enforcement resources to the border in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity."

SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. KRISTI NOEM SENDS 50 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO TEXAS TO HELP TACKLE BORDER CRISIS

Both states have sued over the Biden administration’s policies, arguing that border states are hurt the most by the relaxing of Trump-era border and enforcement measures.

Some states already answered the call and sent National Guard troops or law enforcement to the border, including Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. 

Migrant women carry children in the rain at an intake area after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, late Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. The U.S. government continues to report large numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with an increase in adult crossers. But families and unaccompanied children are still arriving in dramatic numbers despite the weather changing in the Rio Grande Valley registering hotter days and nights. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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The RSC sent letters of thanks to governors who have already stepped up but issued pleas to other states that have yet to answer the call, including to the governors of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. 

"Our home state of Michigan has a responsibility to respond and support states that have not received the necessary federal resources to deal with the crisis," six GOP reps wrote in one letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. 

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Trump is scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexico border with Abbott Wednesday as the governor has pledged to continue building a border wall with Mexico.

Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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England beat Germany as Sterling and Kane send them to Euro 2020 last eight - The Guardian

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For England, it was always going to be about finding the moment, the one to blow apart a tight game, to cut through so much negative tournament history – particularly at the hands of Germany. And for long spells, as the tension rose to near unbearable levels at a raucous and emotional Wembley, the home crowd wondered whether it would come.

Gareth Southgate had reverted to a 3-4-3, ignoring the clamour for greater fantasy and more creative players. It was the England manager sticking bravely to his principles, seeking security, the platform for the moment, and a part of the equation was patience, which was not in abundant supply inside the stadium.

Germany had shown their quality in the first half, particularly early on, yet England came to match them physically and tactically. The longer the second half wore on, the greater the assurance of those in white shirts. Could they find the incision, the note of clarity?

Southgate had called for a hero, somebody to score a goal that will live for ever, and with 15 minutes to go he found one. Yet again, it was Raheem Sterling. After his match-winners in the group stage against Croatia and the Czech Republic, Sterling bristled with confidence and hard running. The qualities were stamped all over the goal that ignited English dreams.

Southgate had introduced Jack Grealish from the bench and the midfielder was involved in the move, taking a pass from Harry Kane and ushering in the overlapping Luke Shaw on the left. But it was Sterling who started the move and it was he who finished it, driving into the box to guide home Shaw’s low delivery. Sterling has scored 15 times in his past 20 England appearances.

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The abiding image of the occasion from a German point of view would come shortly after. It was of Thomas Müller, his face contorted in despair. It was always going to be about moments and Germany’s came on 81 minutes when the veteran was sent clean through by Kai Havertz.

A few minutes earlier, Müller had blasted a free-kick into the wall from the edge of the area. Now he had to find the equaliser. Wembley fretted. Yet the finish was dragged low past Jordan Pickford’s right post. There was relief for Sterling, who had left a back-pass short for John Stones, sparking the opening.

England sensed only their second knockout phase victory at a European Championship – the first had been against Spain on penalties in 1996 – and also an end to the crushing sequence of German dominance over them. Germany had won the past four meetings in the knockout rounds of major finals.

It fell to Kane to make sure and, after his struggles in front of goal, it felt impossibly sweet for him and everybody with England in their hearts when he stooped to nod home a Grealish cross. It had followed another thrust by Shaw and was the prompt for the mother and father of all parties to break out in the stands.

For Southgate, there was personal atonement for his infamous penalty miss here against Germany in the Euro 96 semi-final but, more broadly, the sense that England had located the ignition key. The hard truth is the nation is not noted for an ability to beat established teams in the knockout rounds of major finals. Since the World Cup triumph of 1966, the only serious scalp has been that of Spain.

Now the sense of possibility cannot be ignored, particularly with the draw to the final having opened up. Pickford has come to radiate assurance behind a miserly defence and the statistics show it is four clean sheets out of four; the last time that happened for England at a tournament, Bobby Moore ended up lifting the Jules Rimet trophy.

Southgate’s players had to suffer, with Germany subjecting them to a harrowing opening 10 minutes, pressing high and running at the England backline. Rice was booked for a foul – Havertz wasted the free-kick on the edge of the area – but how the young midfielder managed the game thereafter. Alongside Kalvin Phillips, he was excellent. They were not alone.

England dug out a foothold, with Bukayo Saka showing a couple of flashes on the right, even if there was the worry in the first half about whether they could retain possession or show the needed precision with it.

Sterling extended Manuel Neuer with a shot from distance on 16 minutes and Harry Maguire headed high from a Kieran Trippier cross. Kane fed off scraps – again – although he almost found one in first-half stoppage time. Sterling burst into the area and, when the ball broke kindly for the captain, he looked favoured to score. Mats Hummels nicked the ball away from him.

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Germany had regrets before the interval, the biggest coming after Havertz released Timo Werner. The angle was tight but Werner still had plenty of goal at which to aim. Pickford made a vital block. The goalkeeper would continue to excel after the interval, tipping over a Havertz rocket.

Southgate had wanted to mirror Germany’s formation, to contain the threat of Joshua Kimmich and Robin Gosens in the wing-back positions, which was achieved. And he got the timing of Grealish’s introduction just right. Grealish contributed fully, although not as much as the irrepressible Sterling. England have glory in their sights.

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Russian Olympic Committee to send 335 athletes to Tokyo - Reuters

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MOSCOW, June 29 (Reuters) - Russia's Olympic Committee will send 335 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics next month, its president said on Tuesday, where they will compete without their national flag and anthem due to doping sanctions.

Russian athletes are barred from competing at major international events, including the Olympics, with their flag and anthem until 2022. The country will compete in Tokyo under the name "ROC", an acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee.

"The Russian Olympic Committee has just approved the team for the Tokyo Olympics," president Stanislav Pozdnyakov told reporters. "There are 335 athletes on the list."

Volleyball player Maksim Mikhaylov and sabre fencer Sofya Velikaya are ROC's designated flag bearers, he said. They will use the Russian Olympic Committee's flag.

The ban is aimed at punishing Moscow for providing global anti-doping authorities with doctored laboratory data that could have helped identify drug cheats.

Instead of having their anthem played on the podium, Russian gold medal winners in Tokyo this year and at the 2022 Beijing Games will hear music by composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Many Russian athletes were sidelined from the past two Olympics, and the country's flag was banned at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Russia has in the past acknowledged some shortcomings in its implementation of anti-doping policies, but it denies running a state-sponsored doping programme.

Reporting by Gennady Novik; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Hugh Lawson

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Lawmakers send bill blocking school COVID-19 vaccine mandates to governor - Ohio Capital Journal

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

After midnight on the last legislative day before summer break, Republican lawmakers passed legislation blocking public schools and colleges from mandating vaccination against COVID-19.

The bill, if signed into law, would prohibit public schools and colleges from requiring vaccines that are available under emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. All three COVID-19 vaccines fall into this category.

It also forbids schools and colleges from requiring unvaccinated people to adhere to different protocols like masks or social distancing than vaccinated people.

Gov. Mike DeWine said through a spokesman last week he would veto a similar proposal as passed by the House.

Sen. Andrew Brenner, R-Powell, introduced the amendment Monday afternoon into a largely unrelated bill regarding education for children with parents in the military.

In a floor speech, he emphasized that most fatalities from COVID-19 occurred among the elderly. He also cited a study from an unspecified source claiming there’s “no clear benefit” to vaccination when measured against the COVID-19 death rate. He said the decision is between students, their parents, and their physician.

“This is about personal rights, and it’s also about making sure our students are protected,” he said.

Study after study from the CDC and other public health agencies have documented a plummeting COVID-19 death rate among populations with robust vaccination coverage. The Associated Press reported last week that nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are now occurring among unvaccinated people.

In a 1 a.m. press conference after the House floor session, House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima, said immunizations are decisions for parents.

“I think there is a concern that there might be a movement toward requiring vaccination when it’s not really clear that that is necessary in order for those age groups to prevent the spread of disease,” he said.

Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima, said at a press conference earlier in the day that the legislation won’t undermine public confidence in vaccines. He said he didn’t want to see a “hodgepodge” of different decisions when school starts in the fall.

“At least one large, urban district indicated that all students will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine,” he said. “It reminds people that the vaccine is still experimental and has not been approved like other vaccines.”

COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘experimental.’ To obtain emergency use authorization, manufacturers had to offer to regulators in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trial data from tens of thousands of recipients on safety and efficacy of the vaccines when measured against a control group. They are also under ongoing safety monitoring from the FDA and CDC.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Cincinnati Public Schools is considering requiring COVID-19 vaccination for students this fall.

The amendment passed over the objections of Democrats, who argued the amendment leaves private schools able to require vaccination as they wish, unlike public schools.

Rep. Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, described the amendment as an “attack on our vaccination efforts here in Ohio.” She said the legislation undermines faith in vaccination efforts.

After the vote, the Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom, an anti-vaccination advocacy group, called the vote a “small and temporary win” but doubled down on its support for a broader, more controversial anti-vaccination bill, House Bill 248.

Ohio public schools and colleges have for decades required students to be vaccinated (or in some cases, naturally immune after infection) against a spread of infectious diseases. However, state law requires them to recognize, along with medical exemptions, religious or philosophical exemptions.

The Senate’s version differs from what the House passed last week as it specifies the legislation does not apply to hospitals or health care facilities operated by universities. A DeWine spokesman said last week the governor would veto the House’s idea.

“The governor has made clear his position on bills that discourage vaccination or would affect the right of an employer to keep their employees and customers safe and healthy,” he said.

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Alaska House votes to avert government shutdown, send budget to Gov. Dunleavy - Anchorage Daily News

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JUNEAU — The Alaska House of Representatives has approved a state budget that will avert a government shutdown, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy said he will sign it.

In a 28-10 vote on Monday, the House approved the “effective date clause,” which allows the budget to take effect July 1, the start of the state’s fiscal year.

“Once I receive the budget, and review individual items, I will make a decision on possible line item vetoes and prepare the budget for implementation on July 1,” Dunleavy said in a brief written statement. “This action will avert a government shutdown.”

The vote ended almost two weeks of uncertainty caused when House Republicans voted against the clause.

Other legislators urged Dunleavy to sign the budget without the start date, but Dunleavy said doing so would be unconstitutional. The Alaska Department of Law said that without the clause, Alaska would have no budget until September. That would have caused a government shutdown starting July 1. Thousands of state workers would have been laid off, many state services would have been suspended and many state-paid contractors would have been forced to stop work.

“We’ve got a lot of Alaskans that are probably jumping for joy about now thinking that their paychecks are going to continue on coming,” said Speaker of the House Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak.

The House and Senate adjourned an ongoing special session immediately after the House approved the effective date clause.

That clause required two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate to agree. Fully funding the budget as written requires three-quarters of the 40-member House and three-quarters of the 20-member Senate. Neither the House nor Senate have passed the budget by the needed margin.

As a result, the Permanent Fund dividend in the budget is cut to $525, and there will not be enough money for programs that subsidize the cost of rural home electricity and pay college scholarships to Alaska high school students. Some construction projects in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are also defunded.

But lawmakers believe those issues will be resolved later this summer or in the fall, during an upcoming special session of the Legislature. Dunleavy could intensify the need for a fix by vetoing affected items.

Those problems have been secondary to the prospect of a total government shutdown.

“We’ve been so focused on not shutting down this state that I haven’t taken that next step,” Stutes said.

Speaker of the House Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, watches as lawmakers consider a vote on Alaska's state budget Monday, June 28, 2021 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (James Brooks / ADN)

Alaska’s House of Representatives is divided between an 18-member Republican minority and a 21-member majority coalition that includes Democrats, Republicans and independents. Rep. Sara Rasmussen, R-Anchorage, is not a member of either group.

For weeks, members of the minority have asked for action on a long-term state fiscal plan. The specific requests have varied. Kenai Republican Rep. Ron Gillham asked for a lengthy list of things including changes to the state’s constitutional spending cap and “a 15% cut across the board from all departments.”

One of his requests — and one repeated by many minority Republicans — is a constitutional amendment proposed by Dunleavy. That amendment would increase the dividend to about $2,350 per person if approved by voters next year.

But the proposal has been opposed by legislators in the House and Senate who say it is unaffordable without major new taxes. The Dunleavy administration’s projections call for $500 million in new taxes or spending cuts, plus spending from the Permanent Fund beyond a limit set by the Legislature in 2018.

Republicans sought to use the vote on the effective date — and the vote on fully funding the budget — as levers to move the majority, but neither side was willing to budge.

That led the state to the brink of a shutdown.

Members of the majority suggested Dunleavy could sign the budget without the effective date clause, but the governor said he believes that would be an unconstitutional act.

Attorney General Treg Taylor has sued a legislative agency in an attempt to force a legal decision on the matter.

Taylor said Monday that he intends to continue with the lawsuit. Courtroom arguments are scheduled for Tuesday, with an initial verdict afterward.

In addition to the legal maneuvering, the House majority and minority had been talking behind closed doors for days about a deal to end the deadlock in the House.

The details of that deal were revealed Monday: The House and Senate will create a “bicameral nonpartisan working group” that will try to create a comprehensive state fiscal plan before the Legislature’s next special session. The Republican minority will appoint its own members to the working group, as will the House’s coalition majority, the Senate’s Republican majority and the Senate’s Democratic minority.

Members of the Alaska House of Representatives' Republican minority caucus discuss a vote on the state's budget Monday, June 28, 2021 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (James Brooks / ADN)

After a weekend of offers and counteroffers, Stutes and Tilton had one final meeting about the deal Monday morning. Because of miscommunications, Stutes said she left that meeting thinking the minority was unwilling to make a deal. Tilton said she believed negotiations were continuing and that a tentative schedule was in place.

“There was definitely some communication challenges there,” Tilton said.

Despite believing there was no deal, Stutes called for a vote anyway.

”I felt it was time that people knew where they stood, whether there was an effective date or there wasn’t,” Stutes said.

Three votes, each requiring approval from 27 House members, were necessary.

After two of the three votes, members of the minority asked for a break in order to vote on a “sense of the House,” a nonbinding statement that called for the creation of the budget working group.

The House took an extended break to finalize the wording of that document, allow legislators to read it, then vote upon it.

”It was a very, very heated discussion on how we were going to move forward,” Tilton said.

After legislators approved the creation of the working group, they voted to avert the shutdown.

Republican Reps. James Kaufman of Anchorage, Ken McCarty of Eagle River, Tom McKay of Anchorage, Laddie Shaw of Anchorage and Cathy Tilton of Wasilla switched and voted in favor of the effective date clause and against the shutdown.

Also voting yes was Rep. Sara Rasmussen, R-Anchorage, who was absent from the first vote and is not a member of either the majority or minority. All members of the majority voted in favor of the clause.

Voting no were Republican Reps. Ben Carpenter of Nikiski; Mike Cronk of Tok; David Eastman of Wasilla; Ron Gillham of Kenai; DeLena Johnson of Palmer; Christopher Kurka of Wasilla; Kevin McCabe of Big Lake; Mike Prax of North Pole; George Rauscher of Sutton; and Sarah Vance of Homer.

Excused absent from the votes were Reps. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel, and David Nelson, R-Anchorage. Nelson said he was at National Guard training that had been postponed from April. Zulkosky did not respond to a text message asking why she was absent.

Tilton said she isn’t completely satisfied with the outcome, though she voted against the shutdown. Members of the minority disagree with the idea of funding the dividend and some Mat-Su construction projects from special accounts, and that didn’t change in the final budget.

They also didn’t get a firm commitment on fiscal action in the next special session.

Two years ago, the House and Senate created a similar working group to advise the Legislature on the future of the Permanent Fund. That group’s recommendations were never implemented.

”That is a cause for concern,” Tilton said, “and especially — I think our members have said it on record — what does it take to make change happen?”

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