The Trump administration has ordered rangers from national parks around the country to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration and drug traffickers.
The order comes as the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has refused to fund President Donald Trump’s border security plan, which calls for more barriers and increased law enforcement along the border.
So far park rangers from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, and Zion National Park in Utah, have been among those temporarily relocated to Arizona and Texas to work with Border Patrol agents there.
Critics say the president is improperly using park officials to staff his border plan at a time when the nation’s national parks are desperately understaffed and overcrowded. So far, there is no word about any rangers being sent from Grand Teton or Yellowstone National Parks.
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