WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have used checkpoints around the nation’s capital to screen vehicles, sometimes asking people for their immigration status after stopping them, as President Donald Trump’s crackdown reaches the two-week mark in Washington.

On Thursday, Trump will see for himself the surge in law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

“I’m going to be going out tonight,” Trump told a conservative commentator as his crackdown continues. Trump said on The Todd Starnes show that he would go out with law enforcement and the military.

The use of checkpoints, which can be legally controversial, is the latest indication that the White House’s mass deportation agenda is central to its assertion of federal power in Washington. Federal agents and hundreds of National Guard tro

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