Memphis, tenn. (AP) Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, gathered the members of a federal federal creation group on Wednesday, which works in Memphis in Memphis, as part of President Donald Trump’s control plan for the city.
The officials met with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, a Republican who supported the project before moving a staging area for the Memphis Safe Task Force and then spoke to a group of federal, state and local law enforcement officers and members of the National Guard Tennessee.
Miller called the Task Force a “all state, unlimited support surgery”, which the city would “make safer than each of them could ever imagine”. He predicted that “companies and investments will pour, and Memphis will be richer than ever before.”
“We are not here to guess you,” said Hegseth. “We are here to have your back – to unleash her to do your jobs so that you can get home safely.”
The Democratic US MP Steve Cohen, who represents Memphis in the congress, said he was disappointed to learn about the visit to the media. In a letter to Hegseth and Bondi, he asked her to be more collaborative and commented concerns about the “war rhetoric” of the Trump administration.
“Memphians are not enemies; they are Americans,” said Cohen. “You are entitled to constitutional rights, not your government, which works to” intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill “. We are not a training area or target practice.”
The Task Force is part of a greater exertion of Trump to exploit troops of the National Guard and to rise from the federal law enforcement authorities of the federal government in cities, especially in those who are controlled by Democrats. After the troops in the District of Columbia and Los Angeles, he described Portland, Oregon, as “war -prepared” and threatened apocalyptic power in Chicago. Trump spoke to US military leaders in Virginia on Tuesday and proposed to exploit cities as training grounds for the armed forces.
Arrests begin in Memphis
Bondi said in a social media post earlier a day that the task force had made more than 50 arrests over a period of two days. More than 200 officials have been deputied, including staff from immigration and drug authority. They serve criminal arrest and work with state authorities at traffic stops.
Memphis should expect that the enforcement warrant will be increased, especially for violent criminals, said the deputy US marshal Ryan Guay in an e -mail. The Marshals service will publish regular updates that contain arrest numbers, types of fees and participating agencies, he said.
Tennessee National Guard Troops will support the Memphis police, said Lee, but it is unclear how soon it will begin. Lee does not expect more than 150 members of the national guard to be sent to Memphis. The city said that there will be no tanks, and the governor said that troops will not make or be armed, unless the local authorities request this.
Memphis has experienced a high number of violent crimes such as carjackings and murders in recent years, but both democratic and republican civil servants have been withdrawn in some crime categories this year.
Opponents of the mission say that it is an unnecessary federal line -up of a majority of the black city that instead needs more funds to tackle poverty and other crime drivers. Followers see it as a welcome infusion of law enforcement for a city that still needs support in combating violence.
Troops that report on service in Oregon
The members of the National Guard of this state came to service on Wednesday in Oregon. The troops prepared for the support of the US immigration and customs authority and other US government’s employees, the federal functions, including the enforcement of the Federal Law, and the protection of the federal government in Oregon, “said the Pentagon in a statement.
It could take a few days for them to be used in federal buildings, Russell Gibson, the director of the military department, told the state legislator on Tuesday. The troops are come from a military police company and an infantry company, he said.
The Attorney General of Oregon, Dan Rayfield, tries to block the assignment, with a hearing in the case planned for Friday.
Immigration liability in Chicago
Federal Agents have carried out hundreds of immigration liability in Chicago since last month, especially through traffic stops and targeting day workers and houses in mostly Latin American and affected districts.
At least 37 people were arrested early Tuesday in a residential building in the Black South Shore district. The location was selected due to alleged connections to the Tren de Aragua gang, said the Ministry of Homeland Security.
Activists for immigrant rights called it a further escalation of an operation in which armed border protection officers were arrested at the famed landmarks of the city center. Illinois guides say that they are also ready to send military troops to the administration.
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Loller reported from Nashville, Tennessee. Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon and Sophia Taren in Chicago wore.
