National Guard Mobilizing Across 19 States To Clean Up Democratic Party’s Alarming Failures

Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News late Friday that up to 1,700 National Guard troops will mobilize across 19 states from August through mid-November to support the Department of Homeland Security’s “America First” mission, a sweeping crackdown to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens while restoring law and order in metro areas gutted by rogue Democratic leaders after a decade of disastrous progressive policies that unleashed destructive violent crime waves.

Documents obtained by FOX News show National Guardsmen will soon be deployed to Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming to act as a pillar of support for DHS, such as case management, transportation, logistics, and clerical work. This also includes illegal alien data collection (fingerprints, DNA swabs, photos). They will not perform arrests or direct law enforcement.

The deployments were authorized under Title 32 Section 502F, allowing support to federal agencies while remaining under the control of governors, avoiding Posse Comitatus restrictions.

“We understood ICE’s needs at that time to be more administrative in nature…as planning continued, working with our partners, it became clear more that ICE needed something different,” a U.S. defense official told FOX, adding, “As you can imagine and appreciate, some of those start to get close to that law enforcement line. So it’s best that these people are in a Title 32 status so that we are absolutely staying within the law of what we’re doing and providing the appropriate support.”

Fewer than 2% of the authorized forces have mobilized so far. States like Virginia will begin training in late August for the September deployment.

This comes as 2,000 Guard troops work to restore law and order in crime-ridden Washington, D.C., after years of failed Democratic leadership that defunded police and left an alarming police officer deficit, fueling a violent crime wave across the nation’s capital. For law-abiding citizens, the situation had become completely unacceptable, with many canceling trips to D.C. over safety concerns.

Earlier on Friday, the Pentagon said Joint Task Force members inside the Capitol Beltway “will soon be on mission with their service-issued weapons, consistent with their mission and training.” 

Democrats are really losing the plot as they protest Trump’s move to clean up the crime-ridden metro area. 

🚨D.C. Crime Stats Plummet During Trump’s Federal Crackdown

➡️ All violent crime is down 40.2%

➡️ Robberies have been cut by more than half

➡️ Motor vehicle thefts have dwindled 37% from 154 to 97 over the last 11 days.https://t.co/EXpovpv74K

— Taylor Rogers (@TaylorRogers47) August 22, 2025

Americans need to understand how we arrived here in the first place: nationwide, Democrats pushed Marxist social-justice crusades that championed criminals and penalized victims. This backwards ideology slashed police budgets and advanced destructive progressive policies that transformed American cities into lawless hellholes.