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DC’s Union Station sees National Guard presence as part of Trump’s crime crackdown

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When the National Guard forces increased their presence in the country’s capital on Thursday, about seven of the National Guard and other military vehicles, and about 25 to 30 soldiers, stood outside the Union Station in the capital.

president Donald Trump has begun to put parts of the Colombia Provincial Police Force early this week, but the National Guard forces increased their presence on Thursday, where many of the National Trade Center stationed at the metro stations, at Union Station, near an American park building in Anakosta, the capital, and other places around the capital in the country.

As of Thursday, 800 members of the National Guard have been mobilized to Washington, DC, according to the Ministry of Defense. According to the Pentagon, journalist Kingsley Wilson, the forces are unarmed and support other federal law enforcement agencies that were called to the capital to suppress the violence there.

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“The support range can be modified based on the needs of our partners,” Wilson said. “This will be very similar to [Los Angeles] The task, where we can temporarily hold someone and then transfer him to the law. “

In Union Station specifically, Fox News Digital calculated about 25 to 30 National Guard members, all the military police, four Hamifi and three Matvs early on Thursday.

Fox News Digital only witnessed the troop’s riots.

Trump says that the passage of the capital has stopped reporting illegal immigrants.

The National Guard increased its presence in the country’s capital this week, including dozens who stood outside the Union of the Capital Station. (Fox News Digital)

Other federal law enforcement agencies support by the National Guard Forces include the FBI, alcohol office, tobacco and firearms (ATF), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) and SECRET service.

The operations aimed at reducing crime in the country’s capital were initially focused on night patrols, but Thursday will start conducting a patrol around the clock throughout the week.

The increase in law enforcement in the capital has led to the demonstrators in the streets, including a handful seen at the Union Station on Thursday.

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On Wednesday night, local media reports indicated about 100 demonstrators in one of Washington’s life in northwestern Washington, where the police established a vehicle checkpoint, to challenge the excess of the police.

Morgan Phillips from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

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2025-08-15 00:46:00

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