The White House says National Guard activations in 19 states are unrelated to President Donald Trump’s push to expand Washington, D.C.’s federal crime crackdown to other cities.

The Trump administration is deploying up to 1,700 National Guard troops to 19 states to assist with planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities.

President Donald Trump last week declared a “crime emergency” in the District of Columbia, which gave his administration power to direct the use of local police resources and to call in the National Guard. A number of Republican governors subsequently have announced they’re sending hundreds of Guard troops under their jurisdiction to D.C.

National Guard troops will soon carry weapons in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump ordered their deployment as part of a crackdown on crime, a US defense official said Friday. "At the direction of the secretary of defense,

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this month, he included a not-so-subtle threat to liberal cities beyond Washington: either clean up or face the threat of a federal takeover.

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.