The Trump administration has reached a court-brokered compromise that keeps Washington, D.C.’s police chief in place while formally requiring the Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The deal follows President Donald Trump’s decision earlier in the week to invoke emergency powers and place the city’s policing under federal oversight, a move the Justice Department says will last at least 30 days. Federal agents, National Guard troops and deputized local officers fanned out across downtown corridors such as Union Station after the order took effect. Authorities report more than 240 arrests and the seizure of 38 firearms in the first several days of the operation. A no-tolerance policy announced by the Interior Department has led to the removal of roughly 70 homeless encampments, with those who refuse shelter facing possible jail time. Attorney General Pam Bondi has sworn in Secret Service and Metro Transit Police officers as special deputy U.S. marshals and warned other so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that they risk losing federal funds unless they assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi said the coordination will allow agents to “take criminal illegal aliens right out of the community, right from the arrest.” The crackdown has triggered demonstrations in the capital and more than 30 other cities. Hundreds marched from Dupont Circle to the National Mall chanting “Trump Must Go,” while smaller rallies linked the policing move to the president’s push for GOP-friendly congressional maps. Tensions briefly flared when protesters confronted National Guard members outside a military vehicle, though no serious injuries were reported. Supporters of the federal action cite early statistics—including a 42 percent year-over-year drop in reported auto thefts—as evidence that the strategy is working. Critics, including civil-rights groups and some local officials, call the deployment an unprecedented assertion of presidential power aimed at setting a precedent for future takeovers. Trump defended the measures, saying the city has been overrun by “violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals” and vowing to “restore the capital’s shine.”