Overview

• Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced up to 40 Arkansas National Guardsmen will assist ICE in deportation operations in the state.
• Assignments include 18 in Little Rock, 10 in Fort Smith, 10 in Fayetteville, and two at Camp Robinson for command and control support.
• The contingent consists of 27 Air National Guard and 13 Army National Guard members working on processing, paperwork, and detainee transport.
• Troops will not carry weapons or make arrests and will ride with ICE agents during transport rather than conduct enforcement themselves.
• Sanders framed the move as backing President Trump’s immigration agenda, following a Pentagon-approved push for state Guard support to ICE in multiple states.