WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump said he's deploying the National Guard to Memphis, choosing a a city in a Republican-led state where the governor welcomes the intervention as the next target in his crime crackdown.
"We're going to Memphis," Trump said on Fox News' Fox and Friends, calling Memphis "deeply troubled" and adding that Tennsesee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican ally of Trump, is "happy" about the plans.
Memphis had the highest rates of murder and other violent crime rate of any city in the country in 2024, according to a USA TODAY analysis of FBI data, with 40.6 homicides per 100,000 people.
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