{"id":1576844,"date":"2022-07-28T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576844"},"modified":"2022-07-28T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:40:20","slug":"dc-mayor-requests-national-guard-deploy-to-address-the-border-crisis-coming-to-the-nations-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayor-requests-national-guard-deploy-to-address-the-border-crisis-coming-to-the-nations-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Mayor Requests National Guard Deploy To Address The Border Crisis Coming To The Nation\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-mayor-requests-national-guard-deploy-to-address-the-border-crisis-coming-to-the-nations-capital%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bowser-e1659028453769.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is asking the secretary of the Army to deploy the city\u2019s National Guard to help with the thousands of migrants bused to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWe need the space and we need the federal government to be involved, so I\u2019ve 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,\u201d Bowser said Thursday.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Govs. Doug Ducey of Arizona and Greg Abbott of Texas have been busing migrants to Washington amid a continued migrant influx at their states\u2019 borders with Mexico that\u2019s overwhelming their resources.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser requested the deployment of the city\u2019s National Guard troops to address the influx of migrants bused from Texas and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a number of discussions, we\u2019ve facilitated FEMA\u2019s involvement with a million dollar grant that has now been increased to work with a lead nonprofit agency. We\u2019ve facilitated using those grant funds to set up a respite center in a neighboring jurisdiction and I\u2019ve also asked the Secretary of the Army to deploy the DC National Guard to help lead that effort,\u201d Bowser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MayorMurielBowser\/videos\/785483852580380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during a press conference Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser said the deployment and other support from the federal government are needed to address the \u201cgrowing humanitarian crisis\u201d of an increasing number of asylum-seekers traveling through the country to their final destinations. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/28\/lance-gooden-ice-plan-illegal-alien-id-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: \u2018Absurd Practice\u2019: GOP Rep Demands ICE Scrap Plan To Give Illegal Aliens IDs)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the space and we need the federal government to be involved, so I\u2019ve 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. The number of people crossing the border seeking asylum we expect to only go up and we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad hoc city by city, state by state response,\u201d Bowser said.<\/p>\n<p>The busing effort by Govs. Doug Ducey of Arizona and Greg Abbott of Texas to handle the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/31\/border-migrants-arizona-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">influx<\/a> of migrants crossing into their states is \u201cpolitically motivated,\u201d Bowser said. The reporter who asked Bowser about the border state initiatives incorrectly stated that migrants were being bused from Arkansas, which Bowser didn\u2019t correct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington, D.C. finally understands what Texans have been dealing with every single day, as our communities are overrun and overwhelmed by thousands of illegal immigrants thanks to President Biden\u2019s open border policies. If the mayor wants a solution to this crisis, she should call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border \u2014 something he has failed to do. The true ongoing humanitarian crisis is along our southern border,\u201d Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration is allowing historic levels of illegal immigrants, weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to surge into our state. Texas continues stepping up to respond to this crisis by deploying Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers, building our own border wall, busing migrants to our nation\u2019s capital and now sending illegal immigrants back to the border,\u201d Eze added.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey also responded to Bowser\u2019s announcement with a series of tweets Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DougDucey\/status\/1552708372922638336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a> \u201cBowser is right\u201d that the issue is a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Mayor really wants to address the issue, she can join us in calling for President Biden to take action at the root of the problem, and secure our southern border,\u201d Ducey added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mayor Bowser is lamenting 4,000 migrants \u2014 Arizona had 43,570 border encounters in June alone. \ud83e\uddf5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AyxCgFyrMX\">https:\/\/t.co\/AyxCgFyrMX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doug Ducey (@DougDucey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DougDucey\/status\/1552708368376025088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, border town officials and residents have criticized Bowser for complaining about having to accommodate a few thousand migrants while they deal with the millions of migrant crossings under President Joe Biden, which now exceed 3 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a couple thousand over months of time, we see a couple thousand in one day, our sector is at 1,700 a day. And the buses make sense for those going to the East Coast. And a lot of them aren\u2019t staying in DC,\u201d the director of the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition, a faith-based nongovernmental organization in Del Rio, Texas that accommodates migrants on a daily basis, Tiffany Burrow, recently told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the migrants bused to the city don\u2019t stay there, according to migrants who earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/04\/abbott-texas-migrants-dc-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> to the DCNF while exiting the buses at Washington\u2019s Union Station.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THREAD: This morning I spoke with migrants departing Gov. Abbott\u2019s buses in DC. Here\u2019s what they had to say:<\/p>\n<p>This group, which is traveling with children as young as 8 months old, is from Angola, Africa. They told me they\u2019re headed to Maine. 1\/6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L9gigs5zOw\">https:\/\/t.co\/L9gigs5zOw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IoqIxIESk2\">pic.twitter.com\/IoqIxIESk2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennieSTaer\/status\/1521960254753460225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe were gonna go to New York, but the person is not responding to us, so now we want to go to Florida. We\u2019re seeing if people can help us because there are people that will receive us in Florida and give us work in order to get settled,\u201d one migrant exiting the bus told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. National Guard acknowledged its awareness of Bowser\u2019s request, referring the DCNF to the Department of Defense (DOD), which didn\u2019t immediately respond.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser\u2019s office didn\u2019t respond to the DCNF\u2019s requests for comment. The White House also didn\u2019t respond.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is asking the secretary of the Army to deploy the city\u2019s National Guard to help with the thousands of migrants bused to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}