What the US National Guard does and why Trump is sending troops into US cities

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : A federal court recently blocked Trump from deploying California National Guard forces to Portland, the federal judiciary's check on his powers.
58% : Its power as a state is under Title 32 of the American Code, and federal activation is under Title 10, the New York Times reported.
55% : The National Guard is the unique branch of the American armed forces, with roots in the colonial militiamen and today conducting both federal and state missions.
50% : The force is typically reserved for wars and natural disasters, but Trump has increased its usage on the homeland.
50% : In September, Trump authorized deploys to Memphis and threatened such as Chicago, New Orleans, and St. Louis.
50% : Even as Trump presents his deployments as efforts to combat crime and immigration turbulence, his adversaries contend that the Guard troops are the wrong forces for policing missions and will stoke conflict.
50% : But deploying the force on American home soil under Trump is a very exceptional act that is symbolic on two levels.
46% : Many of those deployments were linked to civil rights struggles, such as enforcing desegregation in the 1950s and protecting marchers in Selma in 1965.

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