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(NewsNation) — An accrued fig of National Guard troops were connected the crushed successful Washington, D.C., overnight Thursday, arsenic the White House expanded its national enforcement to a 24/7 operation.
The thought of national officers patrolling the nation's superior astir the timepiece has spurred protests successful D.C., wherever immoderate residents are recoiling from President Donald Trump's instrumentality enforcement takeover.
Trump has said his nationalist information exigency could beryllium extended past its archetypal 30-day limit — either done an enactment of Congress oregon by declaring a nationalist emergency.
Makeshift shelters connected a sidewalk successful Washington, D.C., connected Aug. 11, 2025. President Donald Trump announced helium would instrumentality national power of D.C.'s constabulary section and deploy 800 National Guard troops there, escalating his propulsion to exert powerfulness implicit the nation's capital. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Members of the D.C. National Guard assemble with subject vehicles successful beforehand of the Washington Monument arsenic portion of President Donald Trump's transgression simplification efforts connected Aug. 12, 2025. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Drug Enforcement Administration agents patrol adjacent the Washington Monument connected the National Mall connected Aug. 11, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A subordinate of the District of Columbia National Guard arrives astatine the District of Columbia National Guard Headquarters connected Aug. 12, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
More than 100 radical person been arrested since Trump’s takeover of the nation’s capital, a White House authoritative told NewsNation connected Wednesday.
Last year, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police averaged 56 arrests per day, according to Reuters, astir triple the mean regular arrests since Trump's effort began.
Nearly 1,500 officers participated successful enforcement efforts Tuesday night, and caller video footage posted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed peculiar agents moving alongside the U.S. Park Police on the National Mall, arsenic a chopper flies overhead.
DC's stateless colonisation faces removal and imaginable fines, jailhouse time
Homeless people surviving astatine an encampment adjacent the Kennedy Center could beryllium evicted Thursday. If they garbage to move, radical could spot their tents torn down and look fines oregon jailhouse time.
Maj. Adam Rios, an Idaho Army National Guard serviceman who was erstwhile homeless, told NewsNation the contented of homelessness is analyzable and doesn't extremity aft streets are swept.
"The problem, I think, is ideological. It has to bash with a batch of consciousness of information … and to beryllium capable to people precisely what you’re trying to target. How bash you separate betwixt the stateless and those that are behaving badly, those who are criminal?” Rios said.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz and Michael Ramsey contributed to this report.
