#national-guard

#national-guard

We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms,

The administration of former president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (20182024) was marked by the rise of the army, which carried out an extraordinary territorial deployment, supported by the growth of a new force, the National Guard. Originally conceived as a police body at the start of his term, the National Guard grew increasingly militarized, generating considerable controversy among experts and civil society organizations.

In an early Saturday morning post on Truth Social, President Trump wrote that he will be sending troops to "protect war ravaged Portland" as well as the city's ICE facility from those he called "Antifa and other domestic terrorists." More troubling still, the president also authorized his agents to use "full force, if necessary." This announcement came on the heels of Friday night's press conference held by Mayor Keith Wilson and several state leaders,

Donald Trump on Monday announced that he was sending in the national guard and other federal authorities into Memphis, in a replica of the administration's expanding military-led response to urban crime in Democratic-run cities. Announcing the taskforce in an Oval Office meeting, Trump vowed to end the savagery and said Chicago was probably next. We're going to fix that just like we did Washington, Trump said.

Bryant approached a group of National Guard members Aug. 24. He allegedly made statements to the effect that he was "strapped," "these are our streets" and "I'll kill you." The National Guard members understood "strapped" to mean that Bryant was armed. Bryant then approached additional National Guard members and "threw his left shoulder" into the left shoulder of one of them, making physical contact, the emergency motion said. The National Guard members told the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., about the confrontations.

Trump was asked Sunday whether he was threatening war with Chicago following a post on his website Truth Social one day earlier. "We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our cities," Trump told reporters on Sunday as he left the White House. "We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war, that's common sense."

With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois' elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump's militarized " invasion " of the country's third-largest city. Trump has threatened to not only send immigration enforcement agents but also deploy the National Guard and even potentially active-duty military, mirroring what he has done in Los Angeles and the District of Columbia.

President Trump said his administration is considering whether to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago or a city with a governor who, he says, would welcome them, like New Orleans. Illinois' Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, has strenuously objected to the potential deployment of troops to his state. Louisiana has a Republican governor, Jeff Landry, who posted on X following Trump's comments, saying he would take the president's help "from New Orleans to Shreveport!"

What the president has also said is that we've got a whole host of things that we can focus on. You can both order the Department of Justice to do full transparency. You can also ask the Department of Justice to enforce the law. You can ask the National Guard to make sure that DC's streets are safe. You don't have to do one of these things or the other.

As a resident of San Francisco who prefers to see urban streets free of armed soldiers, I'd rather not have the National Guard occupy our city, as it already has occupied Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The recent military takeover of Washington by Donald Trump and his army has been abetted by the governors of West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina, and Louisiana who voluntarily contributed some of their National Guard troops to the Washington bivouac,