The state national guard is required by law, and only 20 states have a separate state guard. Minnesota technically has an organization for a state guard, but it doesn’t exist right now. Since state guards get no federal funding, and state national guards do, most of the state guards get defunded or were never created. And the governor has no power to press anyone into state guard service, even if he could fund it. He does have indirect authority to deputize anyone into the state police, who are under essentially no control from federal officials.
Deputization is a good start for me. So long as someone offers me comrades, permission to carry, and moral orders, I wouldn’t mind doing my part against ICE. Be it as “escorting” them outside of my state, protecting civilians, or engaging ICE in open battle.
Here’s hoping that the Blue States decide to resist the Trump Regime in all ways.
The state national guard is required by law, and only 20 states have a separate state guard. Minnesota technically has an organization for a state guard, but it doesn’t exist right now. Since state guards get no federal funding, and state national guards do, most of the state guards get defunded or were never created. And the governor has no power to press anyone into state guard service, even if he could fund it. He does have indirect authority to deputize anyone into the state police, who are under essentially no control from federal officials.
Deputization is a good start for me. So long as someone offers me comrades, permission to carry, and moral orders, I wouldn’t mind doing my part against ICE. Be it as “escorting” them outside of my state, protecting civilians, or engaging ICE in open battle.
Here’s hoping that the Blue States decide to resist the Trump Regime in all ways.