Washington lockdown? Trump orders federal law enforcement to patrol DC | US immigration crackdown

US: President Donald Trump has ordered an unspecified number of federal law enforcement agents to be deployed in Washington, D.C., days after threatening a federal takeover of the city and claiming that crime there was "totally out of control." Washington's crime rates -- ranging from violent crime to thefts and burglaries -- have been falling significantly, but the order follows the president's effort to paint the nation's capital as rife with violent crime. Trump highlighted the beating this week of a prominent Department of Government Efficiency employee by a mob of young assailants in an attempted carjacking, according to local police. "If D.C. doesn't get its act together," Trump wrote on social media Tuesday, "we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City." The deployment, starting Friday at 12:01 a.m., would include law enforcement officers from a wide swath of agencies across the federal government. They include: Immigration police tasked with deportations, the FBI, U.S. marshals, the Drug Enforcement Administration and 12 other federal agencies.