Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers is facing criticism from the city of Detroit and his political rivals for calling on President Donald Trump to send military troops to Detroit.

Rogers, who is endorsed by Trump, is urging the president to add Detroit to a list of cities, including Washington D.C., Chicago and Baltimore, where military troops patrol streets.

“The numbers don’t lie: Detroit has become a hub for violent crime,” Rogers, a Republican, said in a statement published on his campaign website Thursday . “These aren’t just statistics – they’re people and families, whose lives have been flipped upside down because they aren’t even safe in their own community anymore. We have got to make our cities safe again… The Mayor of Detroit should be on the phone with the Preside

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