Here is where Trump has chosen to deploy federal troops during his two terms. During Trump’s first term, he deployed the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border in a bid to cut down on illegal immigration. Trump’s first term, much like his second, was defined by his aggressive immigration tactics.

Washington, D.C. residents and workers are starting to see the impact of President Donald Trump’s decision to place the D.C. police under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets to fight crime.

He took command of the police department and deployed the National Guard under laws and Constitutional powers that give the federal government more sway over the nation’s capital than other cities. Its historically majority Black population wasn’t electing its own city council and mayor until 1973,