President of United States of America Donald Trump in a “much criticised” move , deployed military and federal law enforcement in the Nation’s capital in order to wipe away the rising rates in violent crime. He has decided to deploy 800 DC National Guardsmen to the city of 700,000. “This is Liberation Day in DC, and we’re going to take our capital back,” Trump said.
The central force behind this move is said to emerge from the fact that the city is overwhelmingly Democratic and the Republican President’s fellow Republican politicians “don’t feel safe” due to the flagrant crime,homelessness and financially mismanaged infrastructure of the city.
What caused concern and elicited the high number of demonstrations outside the White House can be traced back to the fact that “National Guard units can be mobilized for federal active duty to supplement regular armed forces during times of war or national emergency”.
The fears emerging across the country are an extension of Trump’s highly imperialist approaches like his immigration policies that have effectively sealed the southern border amid mass deportations while deploying active-duty troops against protesters in Los Angeles.
Trump won’t stop with Washington either. This 30-day “takeover” of the capital’s policing is suggested to expand towards other cities.
