President Donald Trump on Sept. 15 threatened to declare a national emergency in the District of Columbia after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said local police would no longer cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital and ordered a 30-day federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on Aug. 11, deploying federal law enforcement and National Guard troops to combat crime in the city.
With the emergency now ended, Trump said Bowser has notified the federal government that the MPD will end its cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), something that Trump strongly opposes….
Trump Says He Will Declare National Emergency If Washington Stops Cooperating With ICE
