US Deploys 350 Troops to New Orleans as Crackdown Intensifies

The Trump administration is sending about 350 Louisiana National Guard troops to New Orleans, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, deploying military forces to another American city that has been the target of an immigration crackdown.

The troops will “will support federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, as they enforce federal law and counter high rates of violent crime in New Orleans and other metropolitan areas in Louisiana,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, had asked for the deployment in September. He had ...