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AUSTIN — The 1,000 Texas National Guardsmen deployed to the southern border to aid with an influx of immigrants earlier this year will return home next week after the completion of their mission, Pentagon officials said. The return of the troops will mark the end of a controversial “short-term mission” by Gov. Greg Abbott, which Democrats decried as “reckless, unnecessary” and a …

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