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(NewsNation) — President Trump announced Friday that helium volition soon beryllium sending the National Guard to New Orleans aft previously teasing that helium would beryllium targeting the metropolis successful his adjacent national transgression crackdown.
"We're going to travel into New Orleans, and we're going to marque that spot truthful safe," Trump said during a Friday nighttime lawsuit held successful the White House's recently renovated Rose Garden. "It's got a small occupation close now, a mates of headaches, similar murders, a batch of small murders going on, and we're not going to basal for it. And we're going to travel in, we're going to cleanable it up."
Trump's confirmation that he's readying to federalize New Orleans' instrumentality enforcement comes days aft helium floated the idea. Trump connected Wednesday said helium was debating betwixt sending Guardsmen into New Orleans, targeting a Republican-controlled state, oregon to Chicago.
“We’re making a determination present — bash we spell to Chicago, oregon bash we spell to a spot similar New Orleans wherever we person a large governor, Jeff Landry, who wants america to travel successful and straighten retired a precise bully conception of this state that’s go rather tough, rather bad,” Trump said Wednesday.
Illinois Democrats person been vocal astir their deficiency of enactment for a national transgression crackdown successful Chicago, with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) informing the president not to bash truthful and calling his plans "an insult."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) has echoed akin sentiments and established the “Protecting Chicago Initiative” to support the law rights of Chicago residents.
New Orleans besides has a Democratic mayor, but the authorities of Louisiana is tally by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, who has antecedently blamed Louisiana crime connected progressive policies.
Trump, successful his Friday announcement, pledged that New Orleans would beryllium "safe" wrong 2 weeks and touted the alleged transgression reduction successful Washington, D.C. since the national crackdown began aboriginal past month.
"That's going to beryllium the safest place, conscionable similar this is the safest place," Trump said. "And past we'll beryllium going elsewhere passim the country, we're going to bring transgression down, due to the fact that we can't person cities that are unsafe."
