Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed on Thursday that she has asked for National Guard assistance to deal with the migrant influx in the nation’s capital; she needs help with a “humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate.”
“We’ve had a number of discussions,” Bowser said during a press conference. “We’ve facilitated FEMA’s involvement with a million dollar grant that has now been increased to work with a lead nonprofit agency. We’ve facilitated using those grant funds to set up a respite center in a neighboring jurisdiction and I’ve also asked the Secretary of the Army to deploy the D.C. National Guard to help lead that effort.”
“I’ve asked for the deployment of the guard as long as we need the guard to deal with the humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate,” she continued. “The number of people crossing the border seeking asylum, we expect to only go up, we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad hoc city by city, state by state response.”
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DC @MayorBowser calls for activating the National Guard to handle the influx of illegal migrants into the city, calling it a "humanitarian crisis."
This is something she refused to do on January 6 but will do when 4,000 illegal migrants enter her city. pic.twitter.com/R3kUM5JUXs
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 28, 2022
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Bowser had sent letters to President Joe Biden’s administration and the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency asking that the National Guard be indefinitely activated and for permission to use the D.C. Armory as a processing center.
She has not received an answer to either of these letters, NBC reported.
Over the past three months, more than 150 buses have reportedly transported over 4,000 migrants to D.C. from Arizona and Texas.
D.C. Mayor Calls For National Guard To Deal With Influx Of Illegal Migrants https://t.co/kS64XgOg7H pic.twitter.com/nquGOyCqAb
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 28, 2022