Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is once again asking the Pentagon for help with the influx of migrants in the city.
The request comes after the Federal Department rejected the Mayor’s first request last week. Bowser has requested the D.C. National Guard be deployed to prevent what she called “a prolonged humanitarian crisis in our nation’s capital resulting from the daily arrival of migrants.” Bowser requests that the DCNG manage facilities to house migrants and oversee food and sanitation. She said migrants that arrive in D.C. need support for 72 hours on average before they move on to their final destination.
The migrants are illegal immigrants that have been originally arriving at the Texas border, then getting bused to D.C. Texas Governor Greg Abbott began the procedure in April 2022 to bring awareness to the nation’s capital of the illegal immigration crisis that is taking place in border communities in Texas and other states.
Bowser has implied that the illegal immigrants were being tricked into traveling saying their final destinations are not Washington, D.C.
In an opinion piece published on August 11, 2022, for Fox News, Abbot said,
“If the mayors of America’s most populous city and the nation’s capital are complaining about a few thousand migrants, imagine what these small border communities with more limited resources face on the frontlines.”
Bowser has referred to the situation in D.C. as a crisis in the letter she wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on August 11, 2022. She has asked for the D.C. National Guard to be deployed by August 22, 2022, for a period of 90 days.
