{"id":366211,"date":"2025-12-24T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:57:06","slug":"trump-approves-deployment-of-350-national-guard-members-to-new-orleans-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366211\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump approves deployment of 350 national guard members to New Orleans | New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration<\/a> is deploying 350 national guard troops to New Orleans<\/a> 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 under way.<\/p>\n

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on 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.<\/p>\n

Louisiana\u2019s governor, Jeff Landry, a Republican, praised Donald Trump<\/a> and the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, for coordinating the deployment and predicted the guard\u2019s presence would have a positive impact. \u201cIt\u2019s going to help us further crack down on the violence here in the city of New Orleans and elsewhere around Louisiana,\u201d Landry said in an appearance on the The Will Cain Show on Fox News. \u201cAnd so a big shoutout to both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics have argued a national guard deployment is unwarranted and could cause fear in the community, and they point out that New Orleans<\/a> has actually seen a decrease in violent crime rates.<\/p>\n

The deployment of the national guard to the Democratic-led city comes as border patrol agents have been carrying out an immigration crackdown since the beginning of the month. According to the Department of Homeland Security, agents have arrested several hundred people during the first couple weeks of what is expected to be a months-long operation that has a goal of 5,000 arrests.<\/p>\n

Back in September, Landry asked Trump to send a 1,000 federally funded troops to Louisiana<\/a> cities, citing concerns about crime. Landry has praised Trump for sending troops to other cities, including Washington DC and Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

The president has also taken a shine to Landry. Trump on Sunday announced he was appointing the governor to serve as his special envoy to Greenland, the strategic, vast and semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the US needs to take over.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s police department. There have been 97 homicides in 2025 as of 1 November, including 14 revelers who were killed on New Year\u2019s Day during a truck attack on Bourbon Street.<\/p>\n

A US army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wreaked carnage on New Orleans\u2019 raucous new year\u2019s celebration as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

New Orleans is no stranger to having national guard members in the city. In January, 100 guard members were sent to the city to help with security measures after the New Year\u2019s Day truck attack. Guard members were also present for major events in the city this year, including the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is deploying 350 national guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the new year, launching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-366211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}