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A member of the National Guard comes on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 in Washington, DC, in the headquarters of the guard in the DC Armory. President Donald Trump announced that he will put the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and will operate the National Guard to support the district’s capital in the capital of the country. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Washington – President Donald Trump’s step to remove 800 members of the National Guard in District of Columbia, about claims that the crime is plaguing the city despite historical lows, follows his operate of the military in the growth of the immigration of his government.

“(DC’s) out of control, but we will quickly take control of how we did it on the southern border,” said Trump at a press conference on Monday, on which he was flanked by members of his cabinet, including Defense Minister Pete Hegseth. He swore to do the same in more cities in the Democrats.

Trump’s return to the White House was led by a campaign promise of mass shift, whereby newly arrived immigrants on the southern border with high crime rates and the need to operate troops to capture and remove these migrants.

Since the tenure day, the President has stationed thousands of members of the National Guard on the border between the USA and Mexico and ended up on land strips along the border and contacted migrants with military personnel.

Trump’s operate of the California National Guard In June In response to unrest over immigration raids, the test case was considered to be the operate of the state armed forces. The democratic governor Gavin Newsom from California wrote on Monday that Trump was “warmed up in Los Angeles”.

“He will make his way into the militarization of every city he wants in America,” said Newsom. “Dictators do that.”

“Fast reaction”

Now the Trump administration evaluates plans for the establishment of a “domestic civil disorders of quick reaction”, which is made up of 600 members of the National Guard to stay in a stand-by to quickly be used to a US city that is subjected to a protest or other civil macles within an hour. According to documents from the Washington Post.

The groups that would be armed with Riot equipment and other weapons would be divided evenly between Alabama and Arizona, according to the position.

The DOD proposal also requires a rotation of service members of the army and the Air Force units, which are located in Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Members of the National Guard are usually in reserve and are some of the first aiders of natural disasters.

The Ministry of Defense and the National Guard did not answer the request of the States Newsroom for comment on the plans “quick reaction”. The White House did not respond to a request for comments.

Which cities are next?

At the press conference on Monday, Trump explicitly cited four cities in which similar movements of the National Guard could be seen: Baltimore, Chicago, New York City and Oakland – all strongly democratic cities, which are led by black mayors. According to the police database, the violent crime in all cities has continued to lead each city down.

Baltimore County, Maryland, Cook County, Illinois, New York City and the entire state of California are also on a novel one “Sanctuary Courisdiction” list granted by the Ministry of Justice on August 5. They are identified as “guidelines, laws or regulations that hinder the enforcement of the federal immigration laws”.

But in contrast to the district in which the president has control over the national guard, the governors of the state had control over its members of the National Guard according to the law.

While Trump has confiscated the control of the 3,400 civil servants in the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department for 29 days due to the home law of the district, experts do not see how this can be carried out legally with other local police authorities.

“What you do in DC cannot be replicated outside of DC, this is only possible because DC is not a state,” said Joseph Nunn, a Liberty and National Security Program of the Brennan Center. “There is no game book for you to do what you want to do outside of DC.”

Law enforcement officers gather on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at the Union Station near the US capitol in Washington, DC, (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

Law enforcement officers gather on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at the Union Station near the US capitol in Washington, DC, (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

On Tuesday, the press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, clarified Trump’s statements about the admission of members of the National Guard in cities.

“The president talks about what he would like to see in other cities across the country,” she said. “When the time has come, we will talk about it. Starting with the capital of our nation, a great place is to start and it should serve as a model.”

Trump said he hoped that other cities “watch”.

“Maybe you will clean up yourself and maybe you will do yourself and remove the cashless deposit and all the things that caused the problem,” said the president.

Now said, even if the president feds the national guard of a state, these members would be subject to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which generally excludes the operate of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.

“There is no legal exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which enables the military to take part in the local law enforcement authorities,” said Nunn.

Los Angeles

This week, a legal proceedings will be carried out in which the president’s step into a lawsuit submitted by Newsom in the California National Guard. Trump’s step confirmed temporarily after an appellate court.

The president used 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 Marines in Los Angeles, after protests against aggressive immigration measures by masked immigration and customs authorities broke out, which carry out raids on parking spaces for Heimdepot.

However, the legal problem before a court in San Francisco is not whether the president’s measures were illegal, but on the political question of who has the authority about the national guard.

Other governors in the states, who Trump mentioned as candidates for activating the National Guard, have pushed back the term.

The democratic governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, who served in the US Army, said in a statement that the president’s decision to call the National Guard in the Columbia district is “not serious and deeply dangerous”.

The democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, wrote on X, formerly Twitter that the president could not send the National Guard to Chicago.

“Don’t let the public lie to us, you and I both know that you have no authority to take over Chicago,” he said.

The conflict between Trump and the Democrats comes at the same time when Newsom can start a redistribution of the California Congress districts to operate the attempt in Texas to re -enact cards in order to expand more republican seats into the US house.

And Pritzker organizes the Texas Democrats in Illinois, who left the state to prevent state legislation from having a quorum after the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, had called a special meeting for the redistribution.

Armed forces

Since taking office for his second term in office, the President has signed five executive commands that Place the operate of armed forces Within the US borders and expanding other executive powers to speed up Trump’s immigration retard.

Further financing will soon be in hand for Trump’s mass deportations. The massive tax and expenditure cut in July has as a centerpiece of 170 billion US dollars for the procedure of the administration. It bolsteres border security, increases the capacity of the immigration authorities and adds, among other things, the immigration routes for immigration fees. Thousands of other officers from immigration and customs authorities are to be stopped.

Some Republican governors have agreed to operate their own members of the National Guard to support the Trump government enforced immigration, as in Iowa And Tennessee. The secretary for home protection, Kristi Noem, sent the National Guard to the southern border in Texas when she was a governor of South Dakota.

Now said that it is not normal for states to operate National Guard members for local police work, there was a precedent, for example as a New York in the U -Bahn in New York City.

“What is unprecedented is the Federal Government, which uses military personnel for the type of crime prevention for regular police work,” said Nunn.

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