(NewsNation) — Pennsylvania state senate president Kim Ward wants to send National Guard troops from her state to the southern border to back up the guard troops already there.
“What aren’t our federal government officials seeing when these things happen,” she asked Sunday on “NewsNation Prime.”
Ward is among the Pennsylvania senate Republicans who passed a resolution last month calling on Gov. Josh Shapiro to send National Guard troops south.
“In Texas, they need some help. They need some backup.”
Shapiro quickly rejected the idea. “This issue requires leaders in both parties to step up and deliver real, comprehensive solutions — not more of the failed talking points and political grandstanding that have brought us decades without immigration reform,” said Manuel Bonder, the governor’s spokesperson.
One Pennsylvania Guard member, Cam Pursel, also believes it’s a bad idea.
“I know the role the National Guard should play, and I’ve agreed to put my life on the line to serve our country. But I am not willing to do so, nor have my life uprooted, for political theater,” Pursel wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer.