WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration will announce on Wednesday an expansion of its “Operation Legend” program to include Albuquerque, New Mexico in a further effort by federal officials to tackle violence, an administration official said.
The program, named after a 4-year-old boy who was killed in Kansas City, involves deploying federal law enforcement agents into U.S. cities to assist local police in combating what the Justice Department has described as a “surge” of violent crime.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Sarah Lynch; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
