President Donald Trump continues to expand troop deployments to US cities, escalating a campaign to assert military power at home with little precedent in US history.
In the first year of his second term, Trump has deployed National Guard troops and other military personnel to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, and has announced a deployment to Memphis. The president has suggested he will extend the campaign to other cities, including St. Louis, New Orleans and New York City. The White House has said the deployments aim to curb violent crime and support federal immigration enforcement.
Trump’s actions mark a sharp departure from his predecessors. Historically, US presidents have made sparing use of the armed forces for missions within the nation’s borders, a legacy of resistance to the presence of British soldiers in the colonies in the 1700s. Trump’s mobilization of the military domestically has drawn criticism from Democrats as an authoritarian abuse of power.
Where has Trump deployed the military in the US?
In 2018, during Trump’s first term, his defense secretary, James Mattis, authorized the deployment of as many as 4,000 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border to support federal agents with surveillance and logistics for immigration enforcement.
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