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Agencies:

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will send federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico to help combat rising crime, expanding the administration�s intervention into local enforcement as he runs for reelection under a �law and order� mantle.

Using the same alarmist language he has employed to describe illegal immigration, Trump painted Democrat led cities as out of control and lashed out at the �radical left,� which he blamed for rising violence in some cities, even though criminal justice experts say it defies easy explanation.

�In recent weeks there has been a radical movement to defund, dismantle and dissolve our police department,� Trump said at a White House event, blaming the movement for �a shocking explosion of shootings, killings, murders and heinous crimes of violence.�

�This bloodshed must end,� he said. �This bloodshed will end.�