{"id":7352,"date":"2025-09-16T02:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-signs-order-to-send-troops-into-memphis-for-crime-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:44:27","slug":"trump-signs-order-to-send-troops-into-memphis-for-crime-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-signs-order-to-send-troops-into-memphis-for-crime-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order to send troops into Memphis for crime crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images norender-embeds ui-sortable medium-insert-active\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class spellcheck=\"false\" aria-label=\"To enrich screen reader interactions, please activate Accessibility in Grammarly extension settings\">US President Donald Trump, with Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, looks on after signing a memorandum to send federal resources to Memphis, Tennessee, for a surge against local crime, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 15, 2025. &mdash; Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON:&nbsp;US President Donald Trump has signed an order to deploy National Guard troops to Memphis, saying the step is aimed at tackling crime in the city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of his broader crackdown on urban violence like the deployment in Washington in August, but critics argue it risks undermining democratic freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The effort will include the National Guard as well as the FBI and other federal agencies,&rdquo; Trump told reporters at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, adding that it was &ldquo;very important because of the crime that&rsquo;s going on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican added: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re gonna be doing Chicago probably next.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president has claimed troop deployments and deportation raids in Washington and Los Angeles have saved the cities from immigrant crime &mdash; one of his key election pledges.<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the signing ceremony that federal agencies would use the &ldquo;highly successful&rdquo; Washington model to &ldquo;Make Memphis Safe Again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Trump has so far targeted Democratic-run cities in his crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis, a Black-majority city in Tennessee, has a Democratic mayor, while Tennessee state has a Republican governor.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration last week launched a new immigration enforcement operation in Chicago to target what it called the &ldquo;worst of the worst criminals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly threatened to send National Guard troops into the city, sparring with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, in social media posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Trump signs order to send troops into Memphis for crime crackdown<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump, with Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, looks on after signing a memorandum to send federal resources to Memphis, Tennessee, for a surge against local crime, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 15,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-signs-order-to-send-troops-into-memphis-for-crime-crackdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump signs order to send troops into Memphis for crime crackdown&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}