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National Guard troops will be deployed to Memphis, Tennessee to fight crime, President Trump announced on Friday.
“We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled,” the President said in an interview with on Fox and Friends.
“We’re going to fix that, just like we did Washington.”
Trump said Memphis’ mayor, Paul Young, who is a Democrat, was “happy” with the deployment.
At a press conference, Mayor Young said that, although he didn’t ask for the deployment, he would support it in a way that “truly benefits and strengthens our community.”
“I want to be clear, I did not ask for the National Guard, and I don’t think it’s the way to drive down crime. However, that decision has been made, and as mayor of the city … my commitment is to make sure that we work strategically to ensure that this happens in a way that truly benefits and strengthens our community,” he said.
Memphis, population 611,000, has some of the highest crime rates in the US. Nearly a quarter of all residents live in poverty.
During his first term, President Trump sent federal agents to the said to aid in law enforcement.
The President also said he might send troops to New Orleans, another Democrat-run city, and he has threatened to send them to Chicago.
President Trump has made the use federal forces, including the National Guard and Marines, a central part of his law-and-order agenda, which has mainly targeted Democrat-run cities, including Washington DC.
Last month, President Trump deployed National Guard troops to the streets of the capital “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.”
Thousands of troops from multiple states have now been committed to the effort.
Soldiers from West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio have joined members of the DC National Guard, as well as around 3,000 police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and 500 federal law enforcement personnel.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump hailed the effects of his intervention in the capital.
“Carjacking in DC is down 87%,” he posted.
“ALL other categories of crime are likewise down massively since I got involved. DC will soon be a CRIME FREE ZONE, in only 14 days, far faster than scheduled. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
