More than 1,000 arrests have been made since federal law enforcement was sent into Washington, D.C., earlier this month, the White House announced Monday.
Overall, 111 firearms have been seized and six known gang members have been arrested, including a MS-13 and a Tren de Aragua gang member, according to the White House. Additionally, 49 homeless encampments have been cleared by the multi-agency teams.
Of the 1,007 total arrests since Aug. 7, 86 of them were made Sunday night, which included 37 immigrants lacking permanent legal status.
More than 2,100 federal law enforcement officers patrolled Sunday night, during which 10 illegal firearms were seized and arrests included for carrying a pistol without a license, assaulting a federal officer and assaulting a National Guard member, among other charges.
President Trump announced on Aug. 7 that he would increase the federal law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital; he announced days later that he would take federal control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deploy the National Guard.
Under the Home Rule Act, Trump can temporarily take control of the District’s police department if he determines “special conditions of an emergency nature exist.” He has not said when the federal police presence could end, but last week he said he would ask Congress for $2 billion to make improvements around D.C.
Trump has threatened to turn his federal policing push next to Baltimore and Chicago, cities like D.C. that are overwhelmingly blue and represented by Democratic mayors. But he appeared to back off Monday, saying it would be better to be asked by state and local officials for federal assistance.
“I was telling some of the people that in a certain way you really want to be asked to go. I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump visited federal law enforcement stationed in D.C. last week in Anacostia, and Vice President Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Union Station earlier in the week to assess operations.
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