Trump signs order to send National Guard to Memphis for crime crackdown
President Donald Trump signed a memo on Monday creating a working group in Memphis, Tennessee, which would mobilize the National Guard and other federal law enforcement organizations to repress crime, similar to the measures taken in Washington, DC
“The effort will include the National Guard, as well as the FBI, the ATF, the DEA, the ice, the investigations on internal security and the American marshals and even more,” said Trump in the oval office.
“This team will deploy the full power of federal laws to apply the law and the application of the law to restore public security and withdraw dangerous career criminals from our streets,” he added.
The effort is expected in progress this month, the Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an interview with Fox News on Monday evening that “we are delighted to enter Memphis next week”.
“We work hand in hand with our American senators, with the governor there, and we are so excited to make Memphis again safe,” she added.
Speaking to the governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, a republican, who attended the memo signature ceremony in the oval office, Trump said that he expected that crime rates would drop “in four or five weeks, perhaps earlier”.
“You will see figures that will fall and fall as you have not – as we did to DC, they fell,” said Trump.
Lee said Tennessee was “very full of hope and excited by the prospect of advancing this city”.
“” I am tired of the crime to hold the big city of Memphis, “he added.
Trump said on Friday that he planned to send federal troops to the application of laws and the National Guard to Memphis, calling the “deeply troubled” city.
Police chief, CJ Davis, said last week that Memphis had seen “historical discounts” of crime rates, including a murder rate that fell to a six -year hollow.
Memphis is the last in an increasing list of cities managed by democrats who are federal intervention objectives by the Trump administration.
Trump also said on Monday that Saint-Louis would be part of the cities in which he planned to initiate federal repression against crime.
“We want to save these places,” said Trump, referring to Chicago and Saint-Louis, noting that Chicago was “probably the next one”.
Trump also suggested that he could send federal troops to New Orleans.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a democrat, continued the Trump administration because of similar efforts to deploy the National Guard in response to protests against immigration and customs application in Los Angeles, saying Trump had federal troops without his consent or contribution.
A federal judge this month revealed that the use of troops by Trump in Los Angeles was illegal because it violated a law prohibiting the use of soldiers for the civil activities of the application of laws. The case is on appeal.
