WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump's 30-day emergency control of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police comes to a close, Mayor Muriel Bowser said she's expecting the department to head back to a "pre-emergency status quo." Most notably, that means the MPD will stop working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Immigration enforcement is not what MPD does. And with the end of the emergency, it won't be what MPD does in the future," Bowser said at an event Wednesday morning.

When Trump invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act on Aug. 11, he was able to compel the mayor to provide MPD services for federal needs for up to 30 days. That includes, Bowser said, immigration enforcement. Those 30 days end Wednesday at 11:59 p.m.

Though Trump said the surge and police takeover was in effort to comb

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