The Republicans are impatient for President Trump to extend his use of soldiers on American soil

Washington – Washington (AP) – The troops of the National Guard are patrolling the streets of American cities. Weapons of war deployed against international gangs suspected of drug trafficking. Military bases and resources redirected to the application of mass immigration.

President Donald Trump quickly implemented his military vision as an all-powerful tool for his political objectives. It is a reason that the presidents almost never crossed war times, and the experts say that he reflects the role of the most powerful army in the world and his relationship with the American public.

However, Trump has considerably increased his use of military force, republican colleagues in the Congress – where the authorization of such actions is supposed to come – have made little encouragement. This gives the president a significant room for maneuver while he raises plans to send troops next to Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans.

“If I were one of these mayors, I would be happy to have the help,” said senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., President of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaking from a Capitol building where the troops of the National Guard patrolled in the surrounding town. “I think the Democrats of the big city really make a mistake. I think they are deaf. “

The legislators of Louisiana – a red state surrounding politically blue New Orleans – said that it was an excellent idea for the troops of the National Guard to go there afterwards.

“New Orleans, like most cities managed by Democrats, has a high crime rate, so it would be useful,” said Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana, to the Associated Press.

Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Agreed: “We need all the help we can get. I am delighted to bring the national guard. ”

Republicans have known in recent years in recent years by focusing on the issue of crime. The vast majority of Americans, 81%, consider crime as a “major problem” in major cities, according to recent polls in the AP-Noc center for research on public affairs. This includes almost all Republicans, about three -quarters of self -employed and nearly 7 out of 10 democrats.

However, statistics show that global crime is decreasing across the country, some cities reporting 30 years.

In the past, the use of national guard troops on American soil was reserved for extraordinary circumstances such as natural disasters or when local officials have been overwhelmed by civil disorders or disorders. Presidents rarely used troops for the purposes of applying the law.

The notable examples include the 1894 Pullman strike in Chicago, at the time of civil rights to enforce the desegregation in the South, and in 1992 during fatal riots after the police brutally beat the motorist Rodney King and were acquitted for state accusations.

Experts say that Trump’s crime mission stands out because he does not respond to a particular crisis. Instead, Trump uses soldiers to implement his interior policies, that it means using military planes for expulsion flights, strengthening soldiers on the American-Mexican border or ordering the national guard troops to be ready for law enforcement.

“All these things indicate an administration that makes a broad and concerted effort to insert the military into the civil law enforcement in a way and on a scale that has no precedent in American history,” said Joseph Nunn, a lawyer for the Brennan Center Liberty and National Program program.

Trump says he has the “right” to send troops from the National Guard to cities, even on the objections of state governors.

“I am the President of the United States. If I think our country is in danger-and it is in danger in these cities-I can do it,” he said last week.

The congress under its constitutional functions has established laws that govern when and how the National Guard can be deployed at the national level. But while Trump has pushed the limits of these laws, the congress controlled by the Republican was held. Instead, the courts were left to put railing about Trump’s maximum approach to the presidency.

A federal judge ruled last week that the Trump administration “voluntarily” violates the Posse Comitatus law, a federal law of almost 150 years which limits the role of the American army in the national police, when he sent national guard troops to the Los Angeles region at the beginning of June after the days of protest against the raids of immigration. US district judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco noted that Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said they intended to deploy national guard troops in other cities across the country, which raises concerns that they “create a national police with the president as a chief”.

This kind of use of the National Guard was exactly what the authors of the Constitution were trying to protect themselves, said Andrew Wiest, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the National Guard at the University of the South of Mississippi.

The young nation had just undergone an independence war which was launched by a British soldier acting as a police force in the colony, and its first leaders were reluctant to give the president too control of the army. Since then, the presidents have increasingly exercised more power over the troops which have started as militias based on the state.

“This is another of these pendulum moments when the guard will become more federal or perhaps that it will fold in the other direction,” said Wiest. “But since the Foundation of the Republic, she swings towards the federal side.”