On this file photograph from Sept. 2023, a police automotive in Memphis is proven on the scene of a reported carjacking. On Sept. 12, President Trump introduced in an interview on “Fox & Buddies” Memphis would be the subsequent web site of federal motion to fight crime, following intervention within the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
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President Trump is increasing his marketing campaign to intervene in U.S. cities to fight what he says is uncontrolled crime and unlawful immigration to Memphis, Tenn.
Trump introduced Memphis could be the subsequent goal for a federal regulation enforcement push.
“Memphis is that is the subsequent metropolis, deeply troubled,” Trump stated in an interview on “Fox & Buddies” Friday morning. “We’ll repair that, similar to we did Washington.”
After inserting D.C.’s police division beneath federal management, Trump had threatened he would take related actions in different cities. He has the power to take action within the nation’s capital, as a result of the Residence Rule Act offers him command of D.C.’s Nationwide Guard. Nonetheless, the president’s means to intervene in different cities is proscribed since governors management the deployment of Nationwide Guard troops of their states.
Trump stated that Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Invoice Lee and Memphis Mayor Paul Younger supported the choice.
