{"id":128405,"date":"2022-07-29T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128405"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:40:00","slug":"dc-mayor-to-deploy-natl-guard-to-combat-the-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128405","title":{"rendered":"DC Mayor to deploy Natl Guard to combat the border crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has requested the DC National Guard to help with the “growing humanitarian crisis” of migrants crossing the border. Is she sending help to Texas as they attempt to combat the record high levels of illegal immigration that Biden has fomented? Of course not. She wants the troops to help in her backyard, where Texas has been shipping illegals for some time now. I’ll now call her honor, Mayor NIMBY Bowser.<\/p>\n

Military Times story<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a \u201cgrowing humanitarian crisis\u201d prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by a pair of southern states.<\/p>\n

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 \u201csuitable federal location\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis reliance on NGOs is not working and is unsustainable \u2014 they are overwhelmed and underfunded,\u201d Bowser said in her letter. She has repeatedly stated that the influx was stressing her government\u2019s ability to care for its own homeless residents and required intervention from Biden\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we have a federal issue that demands a federal response,\u201d Bowser said at a July 18 press conference.<\/p>\n

In her letter, Bowser harshly criticizes Abbott and Ducey, accusing them of \u201ccruel political gamesmanship\u201d and saying the pair had \u201cdecided to use desperate people to score political points.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s entrenched status as less than a state.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t immediately deploy the district guard. Instead, crucial time was lost while the request was considered inside the Pentagon, and protesters rampaged through the building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lack of self-awareness from NIMBY Bowser is astonishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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