The National Guard is currently deployed in three cities in the United States: Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis.
While troops were briefly deployed in Chicago, they were blocked from activation by a judge on October 9. Similarly, court rulings have stopped the rollout of Oregon’s own National Guard members to Portland, as well as the deployment of National Guard troops from California to Portland.
In June, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered some 4,100 troops of the National Guard to Los Angeles amid protests against immigration raids. This was despite backlash from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who rejected the move.
While the vast majority of these personnel have now been demobilized, around 300 were still on duty there as of the start of September.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, it soon became clear that it was not a standalone act, with the Trump administration then deploying roughly 2,300 troops to Washington D.C. in August, including some 800 from D.C., this time on account of countering crime and homelessness. While authorities in Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia told the Associated Press that they plan to withdraw their troops from the capital in late October and November, it remains unclear when the remaining out-of-state troops will also leave.
