Cameron Young | Tulane Hullabaloo National guard troops were deployed to New Orleans for the Superbowl and Mardi Gras last year. Jeff Landry has requested the Trump administration to deploy as many as 1,000 National Guard of the United States troops in several Louisiana cities to assist with crime-fighting efforts. The official proposal came together less than a month after President Donald Trump publicly suggested deploying troops in New Orleans. Unlike New Orleans and the other U.S. cities where the Trump administration has previously sent troops, Baton Rouge and Shreveport have Republican mayors. Landry’s request comes at the same time as the state of Oregon sues the Trump administration to block the “patently unlawful” deployment of troops in Portland, its largest city.