Trump Now Considering Sending National Guard Into a Red State

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President Donald Trump has a new city in his sights after he threatened to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore in the name of fighting crime and deporting undocumented immigrants.

Trump has thus far targeted Democratic-run cities in Democratic-run states, but this time could be different, as the president eyes New Orleans — a Democratic-run “blue” city in the red state of Louisiana.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday, “So we’re making a determination now. Do we go to Chicago? Do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad.”

He added, “You have New Orleans, which has a crime problem. We’ll straighten that out in two weeks, easier than D.C.”

Trump sent federalized troops into Los Angeles in early June, which a federal judge ruled this week was an illegal move. In a 52-page decision, Senior District Judge Charles Breyer barred the administration from deploying troops to engage in civilian law enforcement. Some 300 troops remain in L.A. and will be restricted in what they can do following Breyer’s ruling. The Department of Justice is appealing the decision.

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