A White House spokesperson told CBS News that while deployed National Guard members "may be armed," they will not make arrests.

The city’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit calling for an emergency restraining order to block the move, accusing the Trump Administration of implementing a “hostile takeover” of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) that would lead to “imminent, irreparable harm”.

The New Jersey Democrat charged that Trump’s push to clean up DC and end sanctuary city policies “show us each and every day how much of a bigot he is.”

The moves come as federal agents and National Guard troops have begun to appear across the heavily Democratic city after President Trump's executive order.

Gov. Jeff Landry said he was sending 135 members of the Louisiana National Guard to Washington D.C. as part of President Donald Trump's federal crackdown on crime in the city.

The number of National Guard troops patrolling Washington, D.C., will more than double in the coming days after Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia in the past several days

Three states are deploying hundreds more National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., at the request of the Trump administration. A White House official told CBS News the troops "may be armed," but they won't be making arrests.