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Arkansas Activates Up to 40 National Guard Troops to Support ICE Under Title 32

Arkansas joins a GOP-led push to use Guard units for ICE support.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and California Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton have an onstage discussion after Sanders received the Richard Nixon Foundation's 2025 Champion of the American Dream Award at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.
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Overview

  • Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced a deployment of up to 40 Guardsmen to assist ICE with detainee transport, processing and clerical tasks rather than making arrests.
  • Personnel will be unarmed and will ride alongside ICE agents during detainee transfers, according to the governor’s office.
  • Assignments include 18 in Little Rock, 10 in Fort Smith, 10 in Fayetteville, and 2 at Camp Robinson for command and control support, with 27 from the Air Guard and 13 from the Army Guard.
  • The mission will operate under Title 32, keeping troops under state control with federal funding, and no start date was provided.
  • The move follows a July Pentagon approval of a DHS request for Guard assistance and mirrors authorizations by several Republican governors in other states.