Abbott: Texas Guard troops on border could grow to 1,400

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that his state will expand its National Guard troops along the Mexico border to up to 1,400 troops to answer President Trump's deployment order to ramp up border security.The new number is more than seven times the 250 troops that Texas National Guard officials said Friday they planned to send to the border, as an advance team was deployed from Austin.On Monday, Abbott said about the state will add about 300 additional troops per week during coming weeks f