US EditionTrump says DHS won't respond to protests in Democratic-led cities until they 'ask for help'
Trump ordered DHS to avoid intervening in protests in Democratic-led cities unless requested, while directing ICE and Border Patrol to strongly protect federal property amid rising unrest.
- President Donald Trump announced that federal forces will focus solely on protecting federal buildings during demonstrations in Democratic-led cities, unless local officials request assistance.
- The statement comes as protests occurred across the country on Friday over fatal shootings by federal agents and Trump's immigration crackdown.
- Trump warned that violators of federal property "will suffer an equal, or more, consequence" and emphasized federal assistance requires local governments to "use the word, 'PLEASE.'
- Trump's comments follow unrest sparked by the deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota and the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents.
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Trump has already sent federal officials in several democratically-ruled U.S. cities for alleged insurrections, but this is now only to happen if the Democrats ask for it.
Trump says immigration agents won’t intervene in anti-ICE protests unless asked to do so
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Saturday that he has instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to tell agents not to intervene in protests occurring in cities led by Democrats unless local authorities ask for federal help amid mounting criticism of his administration’s immigration crackdown. On his social media site, Trump posted that “under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard…
Trump says immigration agents won't intervene in anti-ICE protests unless asked to do so
President Trump says he's instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to tell agents not to intervene in protests in Democratic-led cities unless local authorities request federal help.
Trump says Democratic-led cities must ask and say ‘please’ before DHS will intervene in protests
President Trump stated that the Department of Homeland Security will not intervene in protests in Democratic-led cities unless local leaders ask for help, while adding that federal buildings will be guarded.
Trump has said: "Under no circumstances are we going to participate in the various cities mismanaged by the Democrats regarding their protests and/or riots, unless they ask us for help."The excesses and murders in Minneapolis expose the weakness of Trump The US President, Donald Trump, said this Saturday in a post on Social Truth that he has asked the Secretary of the Department of National Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, on whom the ICE depends, n…
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