DC Mayor Muriel Bowser dealing with immigrant influx

Migrant Influx Overwhelming DC

From Hannity.com

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed on Thursday that she has asked for National Guard assistance to deal with the migrant influx in the nation’s capital; she needs help with a “humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate.”

“We’ve had a number of discussions,” Bowser said during a press conference. “We’ve facilitated FEMA’s involvement with a million dollar grant that has now been increased to work with a lead nonprofit agency. We’ve facilitated using those grant funds to set up a respite center in a neighboring jurisdiction and I’ve also asked the Secretary of the Army to deploy the D.C. National Guard to help lead that effort.”

“I’ve 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,” she continued. “The number of people crossing the border seeking asylum, we expect to only go up, we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad hoc city by city, state by state response.”

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