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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — The U.S. state of Tennessee said Tuesday it was sending about 160 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., after U.S. President Donald Trump said crime and homelessness in the capital were out of control.
The latest developments come about a week after Trump declared a state of emergency in the US capital on August 11 to combat crime and sent about 800 D.C. National Guard troops there.
Over the weekend, Republican governors in West Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina pledged to send National Guard troops to the nation's capital. Mississippi and Louisiana made similar announcements on Monday.
Troops from the Republican-led state of Tennessee are expected to arrive by the end of this week, bringing the total number of National Guard troops in D.C. to about 2,000 by then.
The moves have drawn criticism from Democrats. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, also chair of the Democratic Governors Association, on Tuesday called on her colleagues “in Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and every other state to resist the temptation to use their troops to further a dangerous, politically motivated agenda.”
She said deploying National Guard troops to another jurisdiction “without the request and consent of that state’s governor — or, in this case, local Washington, D.C., officials — undermines the mission of the National Guard, wastes resources needed for real emergencies, and, perhaps worst of all, deepens the divisions that already threaten our United States.” –0–
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