#national-guard-deployment

#national-guard-deployment

During the presser Bowser was asked, Vice President JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are about to speak at Union Station, thanking the National Guard troops, do you think placing the troops at major transit hubs or monuments is the most strategic deployment instead of, say, high-crime areas? I don't think the National Guard should be used for law enforcement, Bowser replied, adding:

Trump's disdain for Democratic-run cities featured heavily in his 2024 campaign, vowing to take over DC, which he attempted this week by sending troops.

Trump's administration plans to push for a long-term extension of the federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department, initially targeting D.C. with future implications for other cities.

"This is the first time this has ever happened that the National Guard has been used to support immigration enforcement and deportation operations within the interior of the country," Joseph Nunn, who is counsel in the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program, told Truthout.

It's critically important that those solutions don't continue, because that isn't their training, said Assemblymember Anna Kelles, highlighting concerns over the use of National Guard in prisons.