BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Governor Jeff Landry hasn't announced where exactly the National Guard may be deployed in Louisiana.

But it's a hot-button issue that has city and state leaders divided.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy announced his approval for a National Guard deployment in our state, as Landry may see fit.

"I'll defer to the governor as to where these should be deployed. Obviously, you want it to be in a place in which it's a high crime rate and the neighborhoods in which that crime is occurring. If they're in the suburbs where there's no crime, it lessens the impact. We want it to have maximal, maximal impact," Cassidy said.

The governor's office said they're still waiting for approval from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth before moving forward with any further specific

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