DC-style crackdown on crime coming to Tennessee, Trump signs order to deploy NG to Memphis

US President Donald Trump, joined by Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee, on Monday signed an executive order to deploy the National Guard in Memphis in order to combat crime, offering another major test of the limits of presidential powers by sending military personnel to American cities. Trump said National Guards would be deployed in Memphis and the personnel will join a special task force in the city which would comprise of officials from multiple federal agencies, including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Marshal’s service.

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