U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents recently foiled a carjacking in D.C. — just as President Trump ramps up his nationwide war on crime.
The CBP agents were making the city “safe and beautiful” when they received a call about a carjacking in progress.
“Agents immediately responded to the area and stopped the fleeing suspect,” a CBP post on X stated.
The agency said the suspect was arrested and will be charged with multiple offenses.
“CBP will continue to support all presidential executive orders and ensure D.C. is safe again,” the social media post read.
More than 1,000 arrests have been made in the weeks since the crime crackdown in D.C. began.
On Tuesday, Trump announced that the federal government will pursue the death penalty for murders in Washington, D.C.:
“Anybody murders something in the capital, capital punishment,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. “Capital, capital punishment. If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we’re going to be seeking the death penalty. And that’s a very strong preventative.”
The District of Columbia hasn’t executed anyone since 1957, after Robert Carter was convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty police officer.
CBS News reported that previously, D.C. had mandatory death sentences for first-degree murders, a policy the Supreme Court later voided in the 1972 case Furman v. Georgia when it found that the death penalty was being applied in an unconstitutionally arbitrary manner. Four years later, the high court allowed capital punishment to be reinstated with clearer sentencing guidelines. The D.C. City Council, however, abolished the death penalty in 1981.
On Friday, Trump announced plans to send the National Guard and other federal forces to Memphis in a sweeping crime crackdown.
“We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled,” Trump said on Fox & Friends.
“And the mayor is happy. He’s a Democrat mayor. The mayor is happy. And the governor, Tennessee, the governor is happy,” Trump added.
AreaVibes reports that Memphis’s violent crime rate is 2,421 per 100,000 residents — 392% above the national average. That translates to a 1 in 40 chance of being a victim.
Trump said he would deploy the “National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way, we’ll bring in the military too, if we need it.”
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Memphis Mayor Paul Young (D) had said Thursday that he was informed earlier in the week that Trump and Gov. Bill Lee (R) were considering deploying the National Guard in the city.
“I am committed to working to ensure any efforts strengthen our community and build on our progress,” Young said in a statement to WMCA in Memphis.
Trump said he “would have preferred” sending federal law enforcement into Chicago but city and state officials there had aggressively pushed back, raising the prospect of a drawn-out legal battle over a National Guard deployment.
Trump surged federal agents and the National Guard into D.C. last month — the start of his aggressive war on crime.
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