By WILL WEISSERT, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation where he may send federal law enforcement.
Trump has already said he plans to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore following his administration’s deployment of troops and federal agents to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., last month.
“So we’re making a determination now,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki . “Do we go to Chicago? Do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straigh