{"id":76815,"date":"2022-11-07T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/11\/07\/guard-emails-dont-match-south-dakota-governors-border-war-talk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:37:41","slug":"guard-emails-dont-match-south-dakota-governors-border-war-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/11\/07\/guard-emails-dont-match-south-dakota-governors-border-war-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Guard emails don\u2019t match South Dakota governor\u2019s border \u2018war\u2019 talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2014 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem described the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/04\/07\/dod-is-sending-more-support-to-the-mexico-border-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. border with Mexico<\/a> as a \u201cwar zone\u201d last year when she sent dozens of state National Guard troops there, saying they\u2019d be on the front lines of stopping drug smugglers and human traffickers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But records from the Guard show that in their two-month deployment, the South Dakota troops didn\u2019t seize any drugs. On a handful of occasions, they suspected people of scouting for lapses in their patrols, but mission logs don\u2019t contain any confirmed encounters with \u201ctransnational criminals.\u201d And a presentation from the deployment noted that Mexican cartels were assessed to be a \u201cmoderate threat\u201d but were \u201cunlikely\u201d to target U.S. forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some days, the records show, the troops had little if anything to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVery slow day. No encounters. It has been 5 days since last surrender,\u201d wrote one Guard member whose name was redacted from a situation report created as the deployment neared its end in September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Noem, who is up for reelection Tuesday amid speculation she could be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-presidential-kristi-noem-58b49f034f7d137d0e422f994ad01c0b\" target=\"_blank\">a 2024 White House contender<\/a>, the deployment was an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-government-and-politics-immigration-7421562fd1afaa74ded5c7469934ac9c\" target=\"_blank\">eye-catching jump into a political fight<\/a>&nbsp;more than 1,000 miles from her state. Noem&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-sd-state-wire-south-dakota-texas-c9461c65234434f91f749a92608d2287\" target=\"_blank\">justified the deployment<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 and a widely criticized&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-south-dakota-philanthropy-immigration-government-and-politics-ea0586be65e874578ca27ffcc690dba1\" target=\"_blank\">private donation<\/a>&nbsp;to fund it \u2014 as a state emergency. Dangerous drugs, she said, made their way to South Dakota after coming over the southern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/10\/28\/pentagons-us-mexico-border-mission-extends-for-another-year\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1063401620cc.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Pentagon\u2019s US-Mexico border mission extends for another year<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Up to 2,500 troops are authorized through September 2023.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the documents obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, through an open records request cast doubt on whether the deployment was effective at stopping drug trafficking, even as Noem claimed that Guard members \u201cdirectly assisted\u201d in stopping it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most drugs don\u2019t come through unwatched expanses of the border or the Rio Grande where the Guard members were stationed, said Victor Manjarrez, a former Border Patrol senior officer who is now a professor of criminal justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. They are smuggled into the United States at established border checkpoints, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Dakota Guard members were stationed at observation posts where they parked Humvees or other military vehicles alongside the Rio Grande. They watched for groups of migrants to report to Border Control, which would then take them into custody. On several occasions, they reported groups of hundreds of people migrating, and at one point, a Guard member performed CPR on a child who had drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the two-month deployment, the Guard logged 204 people who were turned back to Mexico and 5,000 others who were apprehended by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-new-york-florida-united-states-661f3489e74847bee88740fec40fe17c\">Border Patrol to evaluate for asylum claims.<\/a>&nbsp;Those apprehensions were a small fraction of the over 162,000 encounters Border Patrol reported during July and August in the Rio Grande Valley Sector \u2014 the 34,000-square-mile swathe where the Guard was stationed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLike any operation there are going to be busy days and some slow days, that is expected in all operations,\u201d Marshall Michels, a spokesman for the South Dakota Department of the Military, said in an email response to questions on the records from AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noem last year joined with seven other Republican governors to harden the border through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2022\/02\/01\/haste-and-planning-failures-doomed-operation-lone-stars-troops-to-suffer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas\u2019s Operation Lone Star.<\/a>&nbsp;The state-backed mission sought to discourage migrants by making arrests under Texas laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/09\/28\/migrant-encounters-higher-today-than-before-texas-guard-mission-began\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Del-Rio-DPS-Surge-MG-TT-12.jpeg-1.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Migrant encounters higher today than before Texas Guard mission began<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The number of migrants officials encounter at the Texas-Mexico border is higher today than it was before Operation Lone Star began.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mission gave Republicans occasion to deride President Joe Biden\u2019s border policies, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-immigration-greg-abbott-government-and-politics-9845a69bca3fdd1d70f769ef12b5609e\" target=\"_blank\">the operation has not curbed<\/a>&nbsp;the number of people crossing the border. It has also faced criticism for being a rushed mission that gave members little to do while potentially running afoul of federal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noem\u2019s decision to send 48 Guard members was met with particularly harsh criticism because she covered most of its cost with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/06\/29\/private-donation-will-fund-cost-of-sending-south-dakota-national-guard-troops-to-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1 million donation from a Tennessee billionaire<\/a> who has often donated to Republicans. Top brass from the National Guard Bureau and an aide to South Dakota U.S. Sen. John Thune, a fellow Republican, questioned what legal authority the state had to accept a donation to fund the deployment, the recently released emails show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CREW sued the South Dakota Guard and the U.S. Army after they refused a Freedom of Information Act request for records on the deployment and communication between the National Guard, the governor\u2019s office and the Department of Defense. Under that legal pressure, the agencies turned over the documents, which CREW shared with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah Bookbinder, CREW\u2019s president, said they wanted to bring transparency to a donation that he called \u201ca particularly craven example of how money can drive not just politics but how governments operate and how military forces can be used.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-kristi-noem-philanthropy-south-dakota-sd-state-wire-309d41009de752868381da5642006c45\" target=\"_blank\">Congress later banned<\/a>&nbsp;such private donations for Guard deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noem\u2019s administration has insisted that the National Guard, with its military training, was best-suited to tackle what she called \u201ca national security crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt literally is a war zone,\u201d she told reporters this July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noem\u2019s office referred questions on the deployment to a statement last year when she called Biden\u2019s border policy an \u201cutter disaster\u201d that facilitated illegal border crossings and said that Mexican cartels were using the surge in migrants as a \u201cdistraction for their criminal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe scope of the drug smuggling and human trafficking taking place has been made clear to us, and it is staggering,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the two-month deployment, Guard members reported spotting 11 people they deemed to be scouting for lapses in surveillance. On another occasion recorded in the logs, Guard members pointed flashlights at five people with backpacks crossing the Rio Grande who then retreated. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Marlette, the head of South Dakota\u2019s Guard, later told a South Dakota legislative committee they were likely carrying drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those were the only times the Guard members reported suspected drug trafficking. The South Dakota National Guard said it accomplished its mission by supporting Texas\u2019s Operation Lone Star and referred questions on its success to the Texas National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas\u2019s 17-month operation has recorded 21,000 criminal arrests with most of those resulting in felony charges, Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s office recently reported. The Texas National Guard also said it has been responsible for 470,000 migrant detections, apprehensions and turnbacks, as well as the construction of 114 miles of fencing and barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota Gov. 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