Washington: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered the National Guard troops to Memphis as part of his broader crime repression.
He signed the order in the White House on Monday, saying that the move was necessary due to the increase in crime in the city. Critics, however, have condemned the decision, calling it hard and authoritarian.
Trump said the working group would be a “replica” of which he sent to the capital Washington in August.
“The effort will include the National Guard, as well as the FBI and other federal agencies,” Trump told journalists in a signature ceremony in the Oval office, adding that it was “very important due to the crime that is happening.”
The Republican added: “We are going to make Chicago probably next.”
The president has claimed deployments of troops and deportation raids in Washington and Los Angeles have saved the cities of the crime of immigrants, one of their promises of key elections.
The United States attorney general, Pam Bondi, said at the federal ceremony that federal agencies would use the highly successful “Washington model” to “make Memphis safe again.”
Until now, Trump has attacked the cities administered by Democrat in his repression.
Memphis, a black majority city in Tennessee, has a Democratic mayor, while the state of Tennessee has a republican governor.
The Trump administration launched a new immigration application operation in Chicago last week to point to what the “worst of the worst criminals.”
Trump has repeatedly threatened to send national guard troops to the city, training with the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, a Democrat, in social media posts.
