President Donald Trump has invoked emergency powers under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the Metropolitan Police Department under temporary federal command and bring in additional forces. The Justice Department says more than 1,600 federal agents and National Guard troops— including about 800 soldiers—have been assigned to the capital for an initial 30-day operation that began 11 August. Federal and local officials report the crackdown has produced more than 400 arrests. U.S. Attorney-turned-public-safety coordinator Jeanine Pirro said officers made 137 arrests and seized 21 illegal firearms over the weekend, while the White House counted 69 arrests on Sunday night alone. A separate Park Police incident at the National Mall highlighted the new security presence when a National Guardsman intervened to protect an officer during an assault. The capital push coincides with an aggressive nationwide immigration sweep. Homeland Security figures show Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deporting upward of 1,400 people a day—triple the pace recorded at the end of the Biden administration and on track to surpass the formal removal record set in 2012. ICE now holds roughly 59,000 individuals and recently announced 1,600 arrests of criminal migrants on Long Island. Separately, the State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for alleged criminal activity or support for terrorism. District officials are challenging the scope of the federal intervention. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued to block Bondi’s appointment of a Drug Enforcement Administration chief as D.C.’s emergency police commissioner, while U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ruled that the president may task National Guard troops with specific duties but lacks authority to take over the city’s police outright. The legal battle, coupled with early economic side-effects such as a reported drop in restaurant bookings, underscores the broader debate over federal control versus local autonomy as the operation enters its second week.