(The Hill) -- President Trump announced Friday that he will soon be sending the National Guard to New Orleans after previously teasing that he would be targeting the city in his next federal crime crackdown.

"We're going to come into New Orleans, and we're going to make that place so safe," Trump said during a Friday night event held in the White House's newly renovated Rose Garden. "It's got a little problem right now, a couple of headaches, like murders, a lot of little murders going on, and we're not going to stand for it. And we're going to come in, we're going to clean it up."

Trump's confirmation that he's planning to federalize New Orleans' law enforcement comes days after he floated the idea. Trump on Wednesday said he was debating between sending Guardsmen into New Orleans, targ

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