Crime Crackdown

A month after their D.C. deployment, the National Guard has a new assignment: Memphis.

President Trump said Friday that he’ll deploy the Guard to the Home of the Blues to address crime, noting that Memphis had the highest violent crime rate in America per 100,000 people, according to 2024 FBI data. Governor Lee (R) said he’s “grateful for the president's unwavering support”, but Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (D) said Trump’s “incursion” will cause “confusion and fear.”

Louisiana is also getting a visit; the Pentagon drafted plans to deploy 1,000 troops to various cities.

Meanwhile, in Chicagoland, ICE officers were attempting to arrest an undocumented migrant with a history of reckless driving on Friday when the suspect drove his car into the agents, dragging one. The hit officer fatally shot the suspect and sustained “severe injuries” himself.

ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE
There may be good reasons to be worried about this day, month, or year. God does not promise good days; He promises a great eternity in His presence. Stay focused on Him; it changes everything.

“Therefore we do not give up... For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”  
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (CSB) (read full passage)