(Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Monday signed an order withdrawing the state's National Guard troops from the U.S.-Mexico border, saying there was not enough evidence of a national security crisis to justify keeping them there. The Democratic governor's decision to pull back around 112 troops follows similar moves by Democratic leaders of New Mexico and California who said President Donald Trump, a Republican, had invented a crisis on the border for political gain. "There is simply not ample evidence to support the president's contention that there exists a national security crisis at our southwestern border," Evers said in a statement, adding that securing the border was the responsibility of U.S.
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