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The governor of a northern border state is taking matters into his own hands to help <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secure the southern border</a> after receiving "crickets" from President Biden on a plan to resolve the crisis.Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a declaration on Tuesday, which authorizes the deployment of several Montana National Guardsmen to aid in Operation Lone Star. He <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/the-faulkner-focus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined "The Faulkner Focus"</a> to discuss his decision to take action as a northern governor.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-host-demands-mayorkas-respond-trump-claim-biden-welcoming-migrants-change-electoral-dynamics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN HOST DEMANDS MAYORKAS RESPOND TO TRUMP CLAIM ON BIDEN WELCOMING MIGRANTS TO CHANGE ‘ELECTORAL DYNAMICS’</a>"I declared an emergency so we could mobilize Montana National Guard troops to go down and fulfill a request that we got for Governor Abbott," Gianforte told Harris Faulkner on Wednesday. "I was down in Shelby Park. We saw how effective National Guard troops are at securing the border.""We're pleased to join Governor Abbott in Operation Lone Star to secure the border," he continued. "We've had enough fentanyl confiscated, literally, to kill every American in our country. It has to stop. The Biden border policy has been as effective as a screen door on a submarine. It's completely porous, and if he won't do his job, we're going to do it for him."The <a href="https://news.mt.gov/Governors-Office/Governor_Gianforte_Deploys_Montana_National_Guard_to_Help_Secure_Southern_Border" target="_self" rel="nofollow noopener">emergency declaration</a> authorizes members of the National Guard to help secure the border, and they will help Texas officials beginning next week through May 12, according to the governor's office. Gianforte said Montana has been drastically affected by the border surge and issues stemming from the Mexican drug cartels, despite neighboring the Canadian border. "We are arresting Mexican cartel members here in Montana," Gianforte said. "We've seen a 78% increase in fentanyl just in the last year, and meth continues to be a problem. We don't have Montana meth, though. We have Mexican meth that is profiting the cartels and killing the citizens of our state."Gianforte confronted the president at a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admits-broken-immigration-system-meeting-governors-migrants-mass-released-california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House governors' meeting</a> in February on his silence on a Republican-backed proposal to secure the border. The governor again presented Biden with the 2021 plan and said he is still waiting for a response."I think the primary responsibility of the federal government is national security," Gianforte said. "It comes before everything else, and yet he's been sitting on his hands... 27 governors presented a 10-point plan to him two and a half years ago. I, again, handed it to him at the White House earlier this year just asking for a meeting, and it's been crickets. We've heard nothing in response.""We should have bipartisan support to secure the border," he continued. "We're a country made up of immigrants. We want immigration, but it needs to occur legally, not crossing the river in the middle of the night."

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content: The governor of a northern border state is taking matters into his own
 hands to help <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">secure the southern border</a> after receiving "crickets" from President
 Biden on a plan to resolve the crisis.Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte
 signed a declaration on Tuesday, which authorizes the deployment of several Montana
 National Guardsmen to aid in Operation Lone Star. He <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/the-faulkner-focus"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined "The Faulkner Focus"</a> to discuss his decision
 to take action as a northern governor.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-host-demands-mayorkas-respond-trump-claim-biden-welcoming-migrants-change-electoral-dynamics"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN HOST DEMANDS MAYORKAS RESPOND TO TRUMP
 CLAIM ON BIDEN WELCOMING MIGRANTS TO CHANGE ‘ELECTORAL DYNAMICS’</a>"I
 declared an emergency so we could mobilize Montana National Guard troops to go down
 and fulfill a request that we got for Governor Abbott," Gianforte told Harris Faulkner
 on Wednesday. "I was down in Shelby Park. We saw how effective National Guard troops
 are at securing the border.""We're pleased to join Governor Abbott in Operation
 Lone Star to secure the border," he continued. "We've had enough fentanyl confiscated,
 literally, to kill every American in our country. It has to stop. The Biden border
 policy has been as effective as a screen door on a submarine. It's completely porous,
 and if he won't do his job, we're going to do it for him."The <a href="https://news.mt.gov/Governors-Office/Governor_Gianforte_Deploys_Montana_National_Guard_to_Help_Secure_Southern_Border"
 target="_self" rel="nofollow noopener">emergency declaration</a> authorizes members
 of the National Guard to help secure the border, and they will help Texas officials
 beginning next week through May 12, according to the governor's office. Gianforte
 said Montana has been drastically affected by the border surge and issues stemming
 from the Mexican drug cartels, despite neighboring the Canadian border. "We
 are arresting Mexican cartel members here in Montana," Gianforte said. "We've seen
 a 78% increase in fentanyl just in the last year, and meth continues to be a problem.
 We don't have Montana meth, though. We have Mexican meth that is profiting the cartels
 and killing the citizens of our state."Gianforte confronted the president
 at a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admits-broken-immigration-system-meeting-governors-migrants-mass-released-california"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House governors' meeting</a> in February on
 his silence on a Republican-backed proposal to secure the border. The governor again
 presented Biden with the 2021 plan and said he is still waiting for a response."I
 think the primary responsibility of the federal government is national security,"
 Gianforte said. "It comes before everything else, and yet he's been sitting on his
 hands... 27 governors presented a 10-point plan to him two and a half years ago.
 I, again, handed it to him at the White House earlier this year just asking for
 a meeting, and it's been crickets. We've heard nothing in response.""We should
 have bipartisan support to secure the border," he continued. "We're a country made
 up of immigrants. We want immigration, but it needs to occur legally, not crossing
 the river in the middle of the night."
summary: GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte signed an emergency declaration on Tuesday to send
 National Guard troops to Texas as drugs pour across the border and up his state.
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