The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced Monday that he will deploy the National Guard and take federal security control in the city of Memphis, in the state of Tennessee, a city to which he cataloged as “Four times” more dangerous than Mexico City.
“A person has four times more likely to be killed in Memphis today, than in Mexico City,” said the president during a press conference at the White House.
“And you know, Mexico City is not exactly a walk“The president concluded to close his comparison between Memphis’s crime with that of the Mexican capital.
During the event, Trump signed a proclamation to take the National Guard to Memphis and had the support of the Republican Governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, who thanked the intervention of federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), which according to the White House will have agents in the streets of the city.
The proclamation no DEtalla exact dates or other deployment details.
The decision of the US president arrives a month after Trump federalized Washington DC, where the National Guard and where he claims to have reduced the indices of crime at almost non -existent levels, despite the fact that statistics showed that the US capital registered its least number of homicides in three decades.
Trump has threatened to deploy federal forces in other cities governed by Democratic mayors despite the opposition of these such as Baltimore or Chicago, which he said will be “the following” to receive troops.
