Fight against crime | Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard in Washington

(Washington) The President of the United States, Donald Trump, promises new measures to combat roaming and crime in Washington, including the deployment of the National Guard.

During a press briefing on Monday, Trump said that he “deployed the National Guard to contribute to the restoration of public order and public security in Washington”.

The Republican President compared crime in the American capital to that of other major cities, saying that Washington has poor security results.

He compared the situation that rages in Washington to what is happening in the Iraqi, Brazilian and Colombian capitals, among others.

Trump has also decided that authorities will get rid of slums, adding that the United States would not lose its cities and that Washington was just the beginning.

For Mr. Trump, this initiative aimed at taking charge of public security in Washington represents a new step in his order to maintain order, after his aggressive campaign aimed at putting an end to the illegal border passages.

However, this measure implies at least 500 federal officials responsible for the application of the law as well as the National Guard, which raises fundamental questions about the way in which an increasingly daring federal government will interact with its state and local counterparts.

Democrat mayor Muriel Bowser questioned the effectiveness of the use of the National Guard to enforce municipal laws and declared that the federal government could be much more useful by funding more prosecutors or providing the 15 unoccupied positions in the Superior Court of Washington, some of which have been vacant for years.

Ms. Bowser cannot activate the National Guard herself, but she can request the Pentagon.

“I just think it is not the most effective use of our guard,” she said on Sunday on The Weekend, on the MSNBC channel, recognizing that it is “the president who decides to deploy guard”.