{"id":1591770,"date":"2022-08-06T06:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591770"},"modified":"2022-08-06T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:35:09","slug":"pentagon-tells-dc-mayor-bowser-shes-on-her-own-with-migrant-caravans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-tells-dc-mayor-bowser-shes-on-her-own-with-migrant-caravans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Tells DC Mayor Bowser She&#8217;s On Her Own With Migrant Caravans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fpentagon-tells-dc-mayor-bowser-shes-on-her-own-with-migrant-caravans%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=1591770&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>So much for calling out the National Guard for the 0.01% or so of the border crisis that\u2019s unfolding in the \u201csanctuary city\u201d of Washington DC. Mayor Muriel Bowser hit the emergency alarm after 4,000 migrants arrived by bus, courtesy of Texas governor Greg Abbott, who grew tired of Beltway elites ignoring the border crisis that has overwhelmed his state and others along the border.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/national-guard-wont-help-dc-deal-migrant-influx-caused-texas-gov-abbot-rcna41729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Pentagon is canceling the alarm<\/a>, telling Bowser to handle it on her own:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Defense denied D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser\u2019s request for the National Guard to assist with the influx of migrants created by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s busing of migrants to the city, according to a letter reviewed by NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, from the executive secretary of the Department of Defense, said the city has sufficient funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that has been given to D.C. nonprofits that can provide the immigrants with shelter and other services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful consideration the Department has concluded it cannot fulfill your request,\u201d Kelly Bulliner Holly told Christopher Rodriguez, director of D.C.\u2019s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/dod-turns-down-bowsers-request-for-help-with-illegals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Blaze<\/a> has more of Holly\u2019s response, along with a link to Bowser\u2019s previously enthusiastic embrace of illegal immigrants:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Holly highlighted the fact that the city already has access to federal funding through SAMU First Response, a non-governmental organization that has itself received funding via the Emergency Food and Shelter Program by FEMA. Responding to the language of Bowser\u2019s request that the influx of over 4,000 illegals constitutes a \u201chumanitarian crisis,\u201d Holly noted that SAMU First Response \u201csupplements funding for humanitarian relief efforts by government and social service organizations for the purposes of providing shelter and supportive services to families and individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Bowser <a href=\"https:\/\/mayor.dc.gov\/release\/mayor-bowser-issues-statement-reaffirming-dc-sanctuary-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted<\/a> that D.C. was a sanctuary city: \u201cWe celebrate our diversity and respect all DC residents no matter their immigration status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowser\u2019s perceived inconsistency now in light of her concern over the recent influx of illegals has been the subject of some ridicule online in recent days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well,\u00a0<em>go figure<\/em>. It\u2019s easy to declare yourself a sanctuary city when you\u2019re a thousand miles from the border. Bowser took advantage of an easy pose on border security while border states like Texas and Arizona bore the brunt of the costs, crime, homelessness, and other economic and social costs of illegal immigration. Declaring the American capital a sanctuary city for lawlessness\u00a0<em>should<\/em> have consequences \u2014 and now, thanks to Abbott, it <em>does<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t just apply to DC. Remember when New York City\u2019s mayor declared his intent to provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants and shield them from ICE?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We should protect our immigrants.&#8221; Period.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EricOnNBC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EricOnNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericadamsfornyc\/status\/1450967702093320203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Good times, good times<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/karen-townsend\/2022\/08\/05\/first-bus-of-illegal-migrants-arrives-in-nyc-from-texas-n487609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen wrote about the arrival of the first buses from Texas<\/a> in the Big Apple a little while earlier. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/04\/us\/migrants-buses-washington-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times is suddenly not happy<\/a> about the consequences of sanctuary-city declarations and Joe Biden\u2019s lax border policies. They blame \u201cGOP governors\u201d in their headline, but fail to note that the same GOP governors have been dealing with these issues on a massive scale while NYC\u2019s mayor kept encouraging the flow:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A political tactic by the governors of Texas and Arizona to offload the problems caused by record levels of migration at the border is beginning to hit home in Washington, as hundreds of undocumented migrants arriving on the governors\u2019 free bus rides each week increasingly tax the capital\u2019s ability to provide emergency food and housing.<\/p>\n<p>With no money and no family to receive them, the migrants are overwhelming immigrant nonprofits and other volunteer groups, with many ending up in homeless shelters or on park benches. Five buses arrived on a recent day, spilling young men and families with nowhere to go into the streets near the Capitol. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>A vast majority of recent bus riders are Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-ridden country, and many have also been arriving in New York, often via Washington. Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, announced emergency measures on Monday to enable the city to quickly build additional shelter capacity. The mayor, also a Democrat, said the city had received 4,000 asylum seekers since May, fueling a 10 percent growth in the homeless population, with about 100 new arrivals each day.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuelans have been showing up daily at the offices of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York seeking help. \u201cTheir primary concern has been a place to stay, food for their children,\u201d said Maryann Tharappel, who directs the organization\u2019s immigrant and refugee services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe infrastructure in New York is not built for this,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are not on the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah? Well,\u00a0<em>we are<\/em>, and we\u2019re tired of having to fund the \u201cinfrastructure\u201d for the consequences of these open-border policies. If New York City wants to be a sanctuary city and encourage the flow of people over the border with cheap public statements, then New York City can jolly well\u00a0<em>build<\/em> the infrastructure to deal with the massive border crisis that their progressive posturing has created and exacerbated.<\/p>\n<p>Or \u2014 and I\u2019m just spitballing here \u2014 maybe political leaders ought to quit pandering and expect that to be a cost- and consequence-free experience. Perhaps they should start demanding that Joe Biden and his team of incompetents start focusing on the border crisis, finish the border wall, and make sure to end all of the incentives for asylum applications that don\u2019t involve\u00a0<em>actual<\/em> asylum issues. Stop asking Texas and Arizona to foot the bill for cheap talk and posturing and start focusing on rational and effective policies.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, we will likely keep sending people to the cities that like to offer them sanctuary. Isn\u2019t that what they meant in the first place? Because there are\u00a0<em>plenty<\/em> more where those came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much for calling out the National Guard for the 0.01% or so of the border crisis that\u2019s unfolding in the \u201csanctuary city\u201d of Washington DC. Mayor Muriel Bowser hit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591848,"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-1591770","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\/1591770","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}