The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by a pair of southern states.
Mayor Muriel Bowser formally asked the White House last week for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as “suitable federal location” for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. Armory as a logical candidate. She met on July 21 with Liz Sherwood-Randall, assistant to the president for homeland security, and Julie Chavez Rodriguez, director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
The crisis began in spring when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers.
Since then the city estimates that nearly 200 buses have arrived, delivering more than 4,000 migrants to Union Station, often with no resources and no clue what to do next.
A coalition of local charitable groups has been working to feed and shelter the migrants, aided by a $1 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But organizers have been warning that both their resources and personnel were nearing exhaustion.
“This reliance on NGOs is not working and is unsustainable — they are overwhelmed and underfunded,” Bowser said in her letter. She has repeatedly stated that the influx was stressing her government’s ability to care for its own homeless residents and required intervention from Biden’s government.
“We know we have a federal issue that demands a federal response,” Bowser said at a July 18 press conference.
In her letter, Bowser harshly criticizes Abbott and Ducey, accusing them of “cruel political gamesmanship” and saying the pair had “decided to use desperate people to score political points.”
Bowser does not have the authority to personally order a National Guard deployment, an issue that has become emotionally charged in recent years as a symbol of the district’s entrenched status as less than a state.
Her limited authority played a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol building by supporters of former President Donald Trump. When it became clear that the U.S. Capitol Police were overmatched by the crowds, Bowser couldn’t immediately deploy the district guard. Instead, crucial time was lost while the request was considered inside the Pentagon, and protesters rampaged through the building.
please send more. they need millions of ILLEGALS.
Put them in the capitol building. That’s who wished them well.
SEND ALL OF THE ILLEGALS TO WASHINTON DC. OR BETTER YET SEND THEM TO BIDENS THREE HOUSES DROP THEM OFF IN HIS FRONT YARD. GIVE THEM ALL IN WASHINGTON DC A TASTE OF WHAT BIDEN HAS GIVEN THE BORDER PATROL AND THE BORDER STATES. WE HERE IN ARIZONA ARE STRAPED TO THE HILL WITH TAKING CARE OF THEM. WE GO WITH OUT SO WE CAN SPEND OUR MONEY ON TAKING CARE OF BIDENS ILLEGALS BIDEN WANTS THEM IN THEN LET BIDEN TAKE CARE OF THEM WITH ALL THE BILLIONS HE HAS STOLEN FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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i guess its ok to flood the border cities with illegals but not the place that caused the problem DC and the DEMS! Maybe they will get the message the States are Fed up with DC and the problems they are causing our country. Illegals, taxes, overspending, inflation, giving criminals a free pass, protesters allowed to break the Federal Laws and not protecting the people rights, forget ET! Biden go Home with all you criminal friends, lets get back to beings citizens of this crounty and make sure we change the rules to voting day not voting month, that will stop some of the voting fraud.
Please keep sending this illegals to Washington DC. They need to feel what other states are going through with Biden’s open door policy at the border. When I drove by Del Rio, we didn’t even want to stop but continued on 10 to get further in Texas. The Biden administration is letting human trafficking’s, drug lords in and Fentanyl that is killing people run rapid on our towns. They do not care about everyday Americans. They are just trying to let all the illegals they can so they will vote Democrat. They shouldn’t even be allowed to vote as the are not American Citizens, they are illegals. They give them money, free medical, food stamps, but let a regular person try to get all that help. We are overrun with our own Homeless and you want to let more in. Texas and Arizona Governors are our hero’s right now. Fill DC with as many illegals as you can, We support you. Keep voting fraud out of our elections. No illegals, No dead people and only mail in for Military and Disabled. That would help stop cheating. Clean the voting registrars and ask for ID to vote, proof you are a citizen etc.
What about the over 2 million that have been allowed to invade Texas, Arizona, Florida, and other States that have had to deal with this in their States without any assistance from the Federal Government. There are laws in the USA that provides legal admission to our Country and these need to be adhered to.