Washington, D.C. has been declared crime-free by President Donald Trump, who announced the dramatic claim less than two weeks after he moved to seize control of the city’s police force.
“DC IS NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE, IN JUST 12 DAYS!!! President DJT,” Trump wrote in a post Sunday morning.
In a follow-up message, the president said he receives detailed daily reports outlining arrests and criminal cases. “This is a list I get every single day!” he said.
According to Trump’s August 30 update, police made 76 arrests and confiscated five firearms. Among those taken into custody was an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador.
Trump said two suspects described as “drivers of violence” were arrested for firearm violations, while another individual was accused of assaulting a federal officer and making threats against the president.
Additional arrests included a man accused of threatening National Guard personnel and another suspect detained on allegations of sexual assault.
The president’s announcement comes just over two weeks after he invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control following a public safety emergency declaration.
Even as he touted his crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, Trump shifted focus to the issue of election security.
On Saturday, he vowed to take sweeping executive action to mandate voter identification nationwide.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!! President DJT.”
This push mirrors Trump’s earlier attempt to mandate voter ID requirements through executive action earlier this year.
That order was partially struck down in April by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
In her ruling, the Clinton-appointed judge said Trump lacked the constitutional authority to impose voter identification rules unilaterally.
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“Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would affect many of the changes the President purports to order,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
“No statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.”
The debate over executive authority and voter ID is unfolding as Trump faces pushback from the courts on multiple fronts.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a Biden-appointed judge intervened to block his administration from deporting a group of Guatemalan children.
The National Immigration Law Center filed an emergency motion around 1 a.m. with the U.S. District Court in Washington to halt the removal of 10 unaccompanied minors, ages 10 to 17.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was alerted in the middle of the night, issued a temporary restraining order preventing deportation for 14 days.
She later expanded the order to cover all Guatemalan unaccompanied children currently in federal custody, a group estimated to number in the hundreds.
A Justice Department lawyer confirmed that children scheduled for deportation had been pulled from planes and returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
DOJ attorney Drew Ensign noted that some children had already boarded aircraft, and at least one plane had departed before turning back under the judge’s order.
Ensign said the Guatemalan government had relayed requests from the children’s parents and guardians asking for their return, though immigration advocates disputed that claim.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller sharply criticized the court’s move.
“The minors have all self-reported that their parents are back home in Guatemala,” Miller wrote on X.
“But a Democrat judge is refusing to let them reunify with their parents.”
While the administration faced setbacks on immigration and voter ID, it secured a significant legal win in Kentucky.
A lawsuit initiated by Attorney General Pam Bondi targeting the state’s in-state tuition policy for illegal immigrants ended with the policy being dismantled.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman explained in an interview with Fox News that the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education agreed to amend its rules just two months after the Justice Department sued.
Federal lawyers had argued that the state’s tuition discounts violated federal law.
“Under current federal law, any illegal immigrant is barred from eligibility for postsecondary education benefits, like in-state tuition, unless the same benefits are offered to every U.S. citizen,” Coleman said.
Bondi was more direct at the time the suit was filed, saying, “No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens.”
Federal officials argued Kentucky’s policy unfairly incentivized illegal immigration by making the state more attractive than others that did not offer such perks.
Coleman added that while the agreement still requires final approval from a federal judge, that step is expected to be a mere formality.
He said the Kentucky council had been compelled by state administrative regulations to offer the tuition benefits before the lawsuit forced a reversal.
