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The 135 Louisiana National Guard troops sent to join President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime and homelessness in Washington D.C. had arrived Wednesday to help local law enforcement — and they will stay there “as long as the President needs them,” Gov. Jeff Landry said Wednesday.
Joining forces from three other Republican-led states, the Mississippi National Guard will deploy 200 troops to Washington as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing federal policing and immigration overhaul in the nation’s capital.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller went off on protesters as he and other Trump administration officials met with National Guard troops.
The Democratic governor has mobilized the troops as her party criticizes Trump’s decision to send the force to Washington