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Newsweek Writers Debate Trump's National Guard Deployments
The deployments aim to protect federal property amid local resistance to immigration enforcement, with crime rates falling in many cities, officials said.
- President Donald Trump announced this week he will send the National Guard to San Francisco after deployments to Chicago and Portland, repeating on Oct. 19 that `We're gonna go to San Francisco`.
- The administration frames deployments as lawful exercises of presidential power to protect federal property amid hostility to ICE, while supporters blame Governors J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom for interfering.
- Homicides and property crimes have fallen in Washington, Los Angeles, and Chicago amid a two-year decline, while legal experts and federal judges clash over National Guard deployments' legality.
- Analysts warn the deployments carry electoral risks, with commentators citing slippage in public opinion as President Donald Trump loses support ahead of elections 2026 and 2028, while estimated 50,000 protesters in San Francisco signal resistance.
- Drawing historical parallels, commentators note National Guard deployments in Arkansas and Alabama during the 1950s and '60s, while critics warn these risk eroding civil-military guardrails and aim at `squashing dissent`.
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