Police officers set up a checkpoint on the roadside in 14th Street Northwest on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC (photo of Tasos Katopodis/Getty), which on August 13, 2025).
Washington-Die Local Fiihrer and Proponents On Thursday said that President Donald Trump’s decision to confiscate the 3,400-member police district of Columbia and exploit 800 members of the National Guard promoted the immigration of his administration.
Since the president Decision Monday In order to refer to the Home Rule Act des District, checkpoints are set up in busy districts, Bulldoz rooms tents of people who experience homelessness, and the Republican governors voluntarily report for their own members of the National Guard to strengthen the federalization of the president of the 68 square miles of the district.
Videos of masked law enforcement officers who make the Washingtoners leave to leave their cars and carry out arrests were published on social media JournalistsConcern about bourgeois freedoms.
While Trump’s control over the district of the district ends in 28 days, he signals that he wants the congress to extend its authority to prevent the “emergency of crime”.
Proponents questioned the situation. “There seems to be evidence that the federal authorities (Metropolitan Police Department) have not exceeded the lawful limits on some of these traffic stops. There will be an account obligation if the law is violated,” said Norm Eisen, the executive chairman of Democracy Defenders Fund, a legal dispute organization that has made many complaints from the Trump management in the requirements of the Trumpf Reporters.
Trump predicts the enforcement “across the country”
The checkpoints have drawn setbacks from district residents and local elected guides.
In a statement, the district councilor Brianne Nadeau criticized the enforcement of immigration at control points.
“Last night, which would have been a routine MPD traffic safety surgery, was co-opted by federal law enforcement officers,” she said. “Agents who are not trained in the DC Act. Agents who do not know our community. Agents who did not try to cope with traffic safety, but rather to question the drivers in their immigration status.”
Trump on Thursday said that the law enforcement authorities were a “big step” as enforcement of immigration.
“I think that will happen in the whole country” Celebrate the 90th birthday of social security. “We want to stop the crime.”
According to the Ministry of Justice, the violent crime in the district is located on a historic 30-year-old deep.
Iron illegally called the checkpoints.
“You use it as a checkpoint for immigration control,” he said. “This is illegal.”
Bulldozing warehouse for homeless people
Homeless camps in the entire district are also clarified as part of the president’s directive.
Trump Wednesday has signaled that he is planning to send an application to the congress after “relatively low amount of money” in order to make the district improvements.
The press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday that these people who experience homelessness did not agree to go to an animal shelter, fines or prisons.
“The homeless problem devastated the city,” said Leavitt. “Homeless people have the opportunity to leave their warehouse, brought to a homeless shelter to offer addiction or psychological health services, and if they refuse, they are susceptible to fines or for prison.”
The district has a deficit to bring vouchers for those who experience homelessness. According to Street Sense MediaA news agency that focuses on reporting on homelessness in the district.
Local police to lend a hand Feds with immigration measures
The chief of police of the district Thursday gave a up-to-date executive order Allow the local police to support federal officials in enforcing immigration for immigrants who are not in police custody.
The up-to-date arrangement does not change the law of the district that the local police prohibits to share information with federal immigration officers about people in police custody. It is a policy for which Trump criticized the city and referred to it as a “refuge city”, but the guideline is not the enforcement of immigration.
Trump called the executive order “a very positive thing” on Thursday, especially at control points of the district.
“When you stop people, you will find that you are illegal, you report you to give us,” he said.
Since taking office for a second term, the president has intertwined military participation in immigration treatment, e.g.
More movements of the national guard possible
In addition, the Trump administration evaluates plans to establish a “domestic civil law disorders of quick reaction”, which is made up of 600 members of the national guard to stay in standby in order to be quickly used to every US city within an hour that undergo protest or other restless unrest. According to documents from the Washington Post.
On Wednesday, in another up-to-date turn, the Republican Tennessee said Governor Bill Lee He is ready to send its members of the National Guard to the district. Lee added that the Secretary of the US Army, Daniel Driscoll, told him that the military could apply for the states to send troops to law enforcement to the district.
The Posse Comitatus Act from 1878 generally prohibits the exploit of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.
While the President has declared that he also wanted to send members of the National Guard to other cities-Send Baltimore, Chicago, New York City and Oakland, all the strongly democratic cities, which were led by black mayors, as he did with the district, he cannot be replicated, said Abbe Lowell, a top-class defense lawyer.
“One thing that people have to remember his attack on the Columbia district is a very unique legal framework due to the law on the home, which gives him a certain ability to do something that he does not have in other countries and cities in which the governors have some or the main inspection of things like the national guard,” said Lowell, who was on the call with reporters.
This week there is a process in which Trump’s step into a lawsuit by the democratic governor Gavin Newsom is questioned in a lawsuit in the Federator of the California National Guard. Trump’s step confirmed temporarily after an appellate court.
“Raced tones”, quoted by the Mayor of Baltimore
The mayor of Baltimore, Brandon M. Scott, said Trump from these cities, including the district, cannot be ignored.
“Every city he called had a black mayor, and we speak of black cities,” he said when calling with iron and Lowell. “We cannot overdo the racist undertones here.”
Scott also criticized the Trump administration because they had taken the law enforcement officers of the states – the drug authority, the investigation for home protection, the FBI, the customs and border police – from their duties. Instead, they patrol “Neighbors of Washington DC, stop the residents and check cars instead of doing their actual jobs,” said Scott.
“If the president really wants to help these cities to further reduce violence and crime, he could send again to their actual agencies and help us to work on arms trade, to work on violent drug organizations and not to take these agents to work on this immigration brigade on which he has them,” said Scott.
He added that he worked closely with Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore and “We will be ready to take any legal and other measures that we have to take.”
Moore, who served in the US Army, criticized the president for this
Trump wiped off these concerns on Thursday.
“They are trained in common sense,” said the president of members of the National Guard.
Emergencies
Eisen said Trump’s actions in the district were part of the president’s presidential pattern to rely on “non-effort”.
On the day of the inauguration, Trump explained a national emergency at the border despite the low level of immigration.
In March he referred to the Alien Enemies Act from 1798, a war law that was only used three times earlier.
Trump’s decision to explain a “crime emergency” in the district at the beginning of this week attempted carjacking incident Around 3 a.m. near the Logan Circle district. Two juvenile people in Maryland were arrested for unarmed carjacking in connection with the incident.
“Well, what he does in the District of Columbia, including illegal traffic stops, what he does is a piece with this dictatorial approach,” said Eisen about the president.
