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The Wyoming National Guard’s coffers are feeling the pinch of President Donald Trump’s second administration after a deployment to Washington D.C. for the January inauguration, federal hiring freezes and a new mission supporting immigration enforcement, guard officials said this week.

The cost of the guard’s deployment to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the accelerating drive to round up, detain and deport vast numbers of immigrants nationwide is still unknown, Maj. Gen. Greg Porter told state lawmakers on the Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee.

The unprecedented new role for guard troops, who s

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