Description: Following the latest deployment and armament of the US National Guard in Washington, the Trump administration has disclosed plans to reinforce the deployment to additional nineteen states across the US which are under Republican administration. The National Guard’s service status has been changed from Title 10 to Title 32, meaning control over their operations pertained to the federal states where the National Guard assisted ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and other state law enforcement agencies in tackling illegal immigration. The US Attorney General, Pamela Bondi, in defense of Trump’s actions stated that ICE and local law enforcement with the assistance of the National Guard, arrested over 1 thousand illegal aliens in Washington D.C. and confiscated more than a hundred illegal weapons.
Impact: The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migration through the dispatching of the National Guard across the US could draw severe public criticism and precipitate public upheaval in the upcoming period. The US is combating illegal immigration for decades and measures such as immediate deportations with the exclusion of due process could endanger basic human rights and border lawlessness in many cases such as the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been wrongfully associated with the Venezuelan drug cartel, Tren de Aragua. Trump’s measures have so far brought forward mixed results and the President’s plans of continuation of the deportation and arrests through the assistance of the National Guard has faced opposition from the American population and the local governments where the Democratic party is the governing entity. The additional deployment of the National Guard would most probably cause public disruptions, protests and other forms of civil disobedience which would cause regional instability, potentially across several states in the US.