Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) sent the follow-up letter, which stressed "additional information," as the city struggles to handle a sudden influx of migrants bused in from Texas in protest of the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis. A July 19 request was denied on Aug. 4 by the Pentagon, which argued that the District had been given enough funds from the Federal Emergency Management Administration to manage the situation.
Bowser sent another appeal on Thursday, asking for a 90-day deployment of the guard while arguing the Pentagon had only refused her previous request because it failed to understand the situation.
"The Executive Secretariat referred to FEMA, SAMU, and local governments in the region handling federal immigration issues and the FEMA grant funds available to assist these efforts; unfortunately, it failed to demonstrate an understanding of the urgent staffing and logistical challenges that have led me to make this logistical request of our National Guard resources," Bowser wrote. "The Guard is uniquely resourced to provide emergency logistical support."
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The mayor brushed off the complaints in the letter by stating that the guard had been deployed dozens of previous times on her orders without militarizing a humanitarian mission.
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"As Mayor since 2015, I've requested DC National Guard support nearly 50 times — to support our COVID-19 response, major events, and severe weather. Each time, these operational, apolitical requests have been granted. I have been honored to work with these men and women to keep our nation's capital safe in times of great stress, and I take very seriously my responsibility to honor their service with legitimate, on-mission requests," she added.
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Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) administration has offered migrants bus rides to the nation's capital, as well as New York City, to emphasize the burden of the migrant crisis and force Washington to rethink its border policy.
Under direct orders by President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security released 79,652 migrants into the United States last month after they were arrested for illegally crossing the southern border. This brings the total number of illegal immigrants caught and released into the U.S. on Biden’s watch to 1,335,959.
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That is a population larger than nine states and twice that of the District of Columbia.
At this pace, Biden will catch and release over 3.5 million illegal immigrants into the U.S. in his first term — a population larger than that of Chicago.
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