WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – President Donald Trump's D.C. crime crackdown is escalating, with multiple Republican-led states sending their troops to patrol the streets of the nation's capital.

Protestors and city leaders are pushing back against the federal takeover.

Republican governors in Mississippi, West Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina have each pledged to send hundreds of their National Guard troops to the district and according to the White House some of the guard members on patrol may soon carry guns, but the army says they will not be making arrests.

"This doesn't make sense. You know it doesn't make sense. The numbers on the ground in the district don't support a thousand people in other states coming to Washington D.C.,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is

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