Trump’s DC Crackdown: ICE and Police Team Up

Pres­i­dent Trump inten­si­fies his DC crack­down, boost­ing coop­er­a­tion between DC Police and ICE, with police noti­fy­ing ICE of undoc­u­ment­ed immi­grant arrests and grant­i­ng ICE access to facil­i­ties. As a fed­er­al test run, Trump lever­ages unique exec­u­tive pow­ers in DC, hint­ing at expand­ing this approach nation­wide via emer­gency dec­la­ra­tions until courts inter­vene. Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bon­di appoints DEA Admin­is­tra­tor Ter­ry Cole as emer­gency DC police chief. Trump claims DC’s report­ed crime drop—down 26% in 2025 per MPD data—is fal­si­fied, alleg­ing fed­er­al sta­tis­tics manip­u­la­tion. Amid Georgia’s bud­get sur­plus, Trump crit­i­cizes waste­ful spend­ing and unad­dressed home­less­ness, urg­ing solu­tions beyond clear­ing encamp­ments to tack­le crime, drugs, and cor­rup­tion while funds are mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ed

• DC Police and ICE to increase coop­er­a­tion as part of Trump’s crack­down. DC Police to noti­fy ICE when undoc­u­ment­ed immi­grants are arrest­ed. ICE agents to access DC Police facil­i­ties. DC is a test run because the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and the pres­i­dent have more exec­u­tive pow­ers in DC than in any oth­er city. Trump has said that he can con­tin­ue this under a state of emer­gency in any city in the Unit­ed States, it will give him the pow­er equal to what he has right now until a court stops it to prove a point. 
• AG Bon­di appoints DEA admin­is­tra­tor as emer­gency DC police chief. 
• Trump accus­es DC of fak­ing sta­tis­tics show­ing a drop in crime. All the sta­tis­tics that come from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment are altered. 
• When you see a home­less per­son you have to ask why? No one should be on the streets home­less with­out ask­ing the ques­tion Why and how to solve it. We have a sur­plus in Geor­gia, we can’t feel good that we have enor­mous spend­ing on cer­tain issues where peo­ple are steal­ing mon­ey from the tax­pay­ers and then we have some­one sleep­ing on the street. You can’t just take a bull­doz­er and clean up the tents and be done with it. You have to solve the prob­lem.
• We do need to clean up the crime, drugs, and cor­rup­tion while some­one steals the mon­ey and some­one is sleep­ing on the street.