Abbott: Texas sending 1,400 Guard troops to border

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that his state will send 1,400 National Guard troops to the Mexico border 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 for what could be a long-t