Donald Trump continues his plan to end the crime in Washington. The US president has warned that his administration He will ask for the death penalty for those who commit a murder in the US capital.
“If someone murders someone in the capital, death penalty,” Trump said during the seventh meeting of his cabinet. According to the president, this “is a very strong prevention measure”, but said that All your administration agrees. “I don’t know if we are prepared for this in this country. But we have no choice,” he added.
“If someone kills someone,” the Republican insisted, “it will be a death penalty.” This Trump announcement is part of its strategy to end what you consider an overflowing crime in the US capital, Where, despite the high levels of crimes, the figures remain at their lowest point of the last 30 years.
On August 11, Trump took control of Washington’s security, initially 30 days, protecting himself in the law that allows the authority of the city and intervening the authority of the city and justifying that there is an “emergency” for high crime. In addition to the 800 members of the Washington Guard already activated, six states governed by Republicans –Western Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee– They will also send more effective.
With its arrival, the number of National Guard troops amounts to about 2,000, while in the city they also patrol the Metropolitan Police and federal agents of the FBI, the Drug Control Administration (DEA) and the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE). As explained on Tuesday, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, 1,094 people have already been arrested in Washington and 115 illegal weapons have been requisitioned.
Activists and organizations have denounced that federal agencies are taking advantage of this alleged war against crime to arrest undocumented migrants.
