{"id":1591029,"date":"2022-08-05T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591029"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:35:18","slug":"biden-administration-rejects-dc-mayors-request-for-national-guard-help-with-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-rejects-dc-mayors-request-for-national-guard-help-with-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Rejects DC Mayor\u2019s Request for National Guard Help With Illegal Immigrants"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-rejects-dc-mayors-request-for-national-guard-help-with-illegal-immigrants%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=1591029&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--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has denied a request for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-national-guard\">National Guard<\/a> assistance from Washington\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-muriel-bowser\">Muriel Bowser<\/a>, a Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/washington-mayor-requests-national-guard-help-to-deal-with-illegal-immigrant-influx_4628507.html\">made the request in July<\/a> due to the surge in illegal immigrants the District of Columbia has seen since authorities in Texas and Arizona began offering free rides to the city for those freed by federal officials.<\/p>\n<p>Washington officials asked for 150 Guard personnel to help non-governmental groups dealing with the surge, as well as additional personnel to shuttle immigrants from temporary locations to their final destinations inside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Biden appointee, made the decision to decline the request, a military spokesman told The Epoch Times in an email on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have determined providing this support would negatively impact the readiness of the DCNG and have negative effects on the organization and members. We understand SAMU First Response has received grant funding through FEMA\u2019s Emergency Food and Shelter Program, and has indicated that sufficient EFSP funds exist at this point to provide migrant assistance,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>DCNG stands for D.C. National Guard; SAMU First Response is a nonprofit; FEMA is the\u00a0Federal Emergency Management Agency and EFSP refers to the\u00a0Emergency Food and Shelter Program.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespersons for Bowser did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Only presidents have the authority to authorize National Guard deployment in Washington, and they must receive a request from local officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Muriel-Bowser-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference at the John Wilson Building in Washington on March 14, 2022. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images) Texas Bus Arrives in New York <\/p>\n<p>The action from the federal government came just hours after Texas dropped off its first illegal immigrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/texas-starts-transporting-illegal-immigrants-to-new-york-city_4645573.html\">in New York City<\/a>, expanding the transportation program beyond Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of President Biden\u2019s continued refusal to acknowledge the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has denied a request for National Guard assistance from Washington\u2019s mayor. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, made the request in July due to the surge in illegal immigrants the District of Columbia has seen since authorities in Texas and Arizona began offering free rides to the city for those freed by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1591029","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\/1591029","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591029\/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=1591029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}