{"id":1602646,"date":"2022-08-12T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1602646"},"modified":"2022-08-12T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:19:29","slug":"pro-sanctuary-city-dc-mayor-again-pleads-to-national-guard-for-help-with-illegals-bused-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-sanctuary-city-dc-mayor-again-pleads-to-national-guard-for-help-with-illegals-bused-from-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Sanctuary City DC Mayor Again Pleads to National Guard for Help With Illegals Bused From Texas"},"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%2Fpro-sanctuary-city-dc-mayor-again-pleads-to-national-guard-for-help-with-illegals-bused-from-texas%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=1602646&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has formally renewed her bid to get National Guard help for the \u201ccritical\u201d flood of border-crossers being shipped in by fed-up officials in Arizona and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorBowser\/status\/1557843980812951552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin <\/a>on Thursday, almost a week after the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/05\/pentagon-denies-dc-mayor-ask-for-help-with-migrants-reports\/\">denied her initial plea<\/a> for help with the mass arrivals, which are now also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/09\/heres-what-nyc-can-expect-from-texas-border-migrant-surge-this-week\/\">streaming into the Big Apple.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She again begged for support \u201cto help prevent a prolonged <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/05\/democrats-suddenly-realize-open-borders-are-a-disaster\/\">humanitarian crisis<\/a> in our nation\u2019s capital resulting from the daily arrival of migrants in need of assistance\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need help from our federal partners as we seek to stabilize and manage our operating environment in this critical moment,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser also revealed that she is asking President Biden to give the border crossers special treatment akin to war refugees<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-feat-image-1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has again called for National Guard help with flood of migrants.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe, likewise, encourage the federal government, as I have expressed to White House officials, to help asylum seekers in ways similar to systems set up for Afghan and Ukrainian refugees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The progressive mayor initially begged for help on July 19, saying then that more than 4,000 migrants had arrived after being <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/13\/first-migrant-bus-from-texas-arrives-in-dc\/\">sent out on buses <\/a>from overwhelmed border states.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23433331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1584 1584w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1187 1188w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=792 792w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=396 396w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-02.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Bowser made her latest appeal in a formal letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Defiant Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has also started shipping border crossers to the Big Apple, telling Mayor Eric Adams that he will not stop until <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/10\/texas-gov-abbott-dares-nyc-mayor-adams-to-make-my-day-in-migrant-war\/\">President Biden\u2019s administration changes its immigration policies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bowser implored the Pentagon to send guards by Monday to help for at least 90 days \u2014 even though she said most of the arriving migrants only stay in DC for 72 hours <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/11\/migrants-use-charity-cash-to-flee-nyc-when-they-cant-get-into-shelter\/\">\u201cbefore moving <\/a>to their final destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-04.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants dropped off in capital.\" class=\"wp-image-23433337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Thousands of border-crossers have been sent to DC since April in protests by fed-up officials in Arizona and Texas.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-10.jpg\" alt=\"National Guards in DC last year.\" class=\"wp-image-23433341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/bowser-pentagon-national-guard-migrants-10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The DC mayor said she needs National Guard help for at least 90 days \u201d \u201cto help prevent a prolonged humanitarian crisis in our nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Specifically, the guards would cover \u201curgent staffing and logistical challenges\u201d by helping with \u201cfacility management, feeding, sanitation and ground support,\u201d the mayor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She also asked to use \u201cthe DC Armory or another federal site to serve as a respite center\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Mayor since 2015, I\u2019ve requested DC National Guard sup[port nearly 50 times \u2014 to support our COVID-19 response, major events and severe weather,\u201d Bowser reminded Lloyd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach time, these operational, apolitical requests have been granted,\u201d she said, challenging the rejection made last week.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the letter online, Bowers wrote, \u201cI have been honored to work with the men and women of the DC National Guard many times and today we renewed our request for their 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