Trump is not the first president to deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border
President Trump is taking a lot of heat for his decision to deploy the National Guard to America's southern border, but he is repeating a move made by many of his predecessors.
Former presidents, including Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft, all issued orders similar to those Trump made in a proclamation Wednesday. In 1954, President Eisenhower's attorney general requested the Army assist the border patrol during a major sweep for undocumented immigrants, but his request was denied.
Here is a look at other times the U.S. deployed — and in one case attempted to deploy — troops to the border.
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