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By Elise Winland, Catholic Vote, September 12, 2025
President Donald Trump said Sept. 12 he plans to deploy the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, to address crime in the city.
“We’re going to Memphis,” Trump said in a FOX News interview. “We’ll straighten that out.”
He added that he will send “the National Guard and anybody we need, and by the way, we’ll bring in the military too if we need it. But we’re going to straighten out the crime in these cities.”
The President said both Memphis Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, support the move.
However, at a press conference after Trump’s announcement on Sept. 12, Young said, “I did not ask for the National Guard, and I don’t think it’s the way to drive down crime,” ABC 24 reported. …
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