>The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border Patrol is underway.
>Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Tuesday that Guard members, as they have in other deployments in large cities, will be tasked with supporting federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Parnell added that the National Guard troops will be deployed through February.
>Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, praised President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for coordinating the deployment and predicted the Guard’s presence would have a positive impact.
>“It’s going to help us further crack down on the violence here in the city of New Orleans and elsewhere around Louisiana,” Landry said in an appearance on the Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.” “And so a big shoutout to both of them.”
>Critics have argued a National Guard deployment is unwarranted and could cause fear in the community, and they point out that New Orleans has actually seen a decrease in violent crime rates.
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New Orleans has been on pace for much of the year to have its lowest number of murders in decades, according to preliminary data from the city’s police department. There have been 97 homicides in 2025 as of Nov. 1, including 14 revelers who were killed on New Year’s Day during a truck attack on Bourbon Street.
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There were 124 homicides last year and 193 in 2023, according to city figures. Armed robberies, aggravated assaults, carjackings, shootings and property crimes have also trended downward.
glowingSara on
What’s his obsession with using the national guard against his own states?
HibbletonFan on
Mardi Gras 2026 is going to suck.
Ok-Internet5559 on
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is also now the envoy to Greenland. The Danes are not amused. Trump wants Greenland for some f’d up reason.
Courts have already ruled NG deployment to Chicago is not tenable. Should be the same for any other city/state.
mahamoti on
This is all so fucking *stupid*. Landry controls the LA national guard. He could have deployed them himself. But then he couldn’t lick Trump’s boot any harder.
zenerat on
To pick up trash again? This is such a distraction from the Epstein files my man it’s like you were never in them.
Zieprus_ on
I thought crime was down a lot according to Trump.
CT_Phipps-Author on
Essentially Trump wants to declare martial law but is running into the fact that people aren’t rioting because they’re onto to the game.
Mikethebest78 on
If Obama had done this Fox News would scream about it 24 hours of the day.
oberholtz on
Instead of thinking of ways to leave and take your marbles home, why not try to understand why 50% of the USA disagrees with you?
naonatu- on
blue city dress rehearsal for the mid-terms
In_leiu_of_That_Girl on
NOLA residents should start wearing their Mardi Gras costumes and squeak rubber chickens at the NG every day. Fight it peacefully like Portland!
Raspberries-Are-Evil on
Every single guardsman that follows this illegal order needs to be dishonorably discharged.
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>The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border Patrol is underway.
>Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Tuesday that Guard members, as they have in other deployments in large cities, will be tasked with supporting federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Parnell added that the National Guard troops will be deployed through February.
>Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, praised President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for coordinating the deployment and predicted the Guard’s presence would have a positive impact.
>“It’s going to help us further crack down on the violence here in the city of New Orleans and elsewhere around Louisiana,” Landry said in an appearance on the Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.” “And so a big shoutout to both of them.”
>Critics have argued a National Guard deployment is unwarranted and could cause fear in the community, and they point out that New Orleans has actually seen a decrease in violent crime rates.
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New Orleans has been on pace for much of the year to have its lowest number of murders in decades, according to preliminary data from the city’s police department. There have been 97 homicides in 2025 as of Nov. 1, including 14 revelers who were killed on New Year’s Day during a truck attack on Bourbon Street.
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There were 124 homicides last year and 193 in 2023, according to city figures. Armed robberies, aggravated assaults, carjackings, shootings and property crimes have also trended downward.
What’s his obsession with using the national guard against his own states?
Mardi Gras 2026 is going to suck.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is also now the envoy to Greenland. The Danes are not amused. Trump wants Greenland for some f’d up reason.
Courts have already ruled NG deployment to Chicago is not tenable. Should be the same for any other city/state.
This is all so fucking *stupid*. Landry controls the LA national guard. He could have deployed them himself. But then he couldn’t lick Trump’s boot any harder.
To pick up trash again? This is such a distraction from the Epstein files my man it’s like you were never in them.
I thought crime was down a lot according to Trump.
Essentially Trump wants to declare martial law but is running into the fact that people aren’t rioting because they’re onto to the game.
If Obama had done this Fox News would scream about it 24 hours of the day.
Instead of thinking of ways to leave and take your marbles home, why not try to understand why 50% of the USA disagrees with you?
blue city dress rehearsal for the mid-terms
NOLA residents should start wearing their Mardi Gras costumes and squeak rubber chickens at the NG every day. Fight it peacefully like Portland!
Every single guardsman that follows this illegal order needs to be dishonorably discharged.
He’s still doing this?