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Officers from Metropolitan Police Department, FBI, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), are seen monitoring a football game between Bell Multicultural and Archbishop Carroll, Friday, Sept., 12, 2025, at Cardozo High School in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to once again federalize Washington, D.C.'s police force , in what he suggested could come in response to the city's mayor's stated refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
Trump's emergency order, which took over the local police force, expired last week. Hours before it elapsed, Mayor Muriel Bowser said that the city would not cooperate