The 135 Louisiana National Guard troops sent to join President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime and homelessness in Washington D.C. had arrived Wednesday to help local law enforcement — and they will stay there “as long as the President needs them,” Gov. Jeff Landry said Wednesday.

The troops join a federal intervention that began about 10 days ago, when Trump issued an executive order declaring a “crime emergency” in D.C. He used that to initiate a takeover of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department, and he also deployed 800 D.C. National Guard troops to the nation’s capital. Federal agents and ICE officials are also on the ground there.

In recent days, six Republican-led states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia and South Carolina, promised to se

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