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DC requests National Guard help with busloads of migrants
The crisis began in spring when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON: The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by a pair of southern states.
Mayor Muriel Bowser formally asked the White House last week for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as “suitable federal location” for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. Armory as a logical candidate. She met on July 21 with Liz Sherwood-Randall, assistant to the president for homeland security, and Julie Chavez Rodriguez, director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.The crisis began in spring when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers.
Since then the city estimates that nearly 200 buses have arrived, delivering more than 4,000 migrants to Union Station, often with no resources and no clue what to do next.
A coalition of local charitable groups has been working to feed and shelter the migrants, aided by a $1 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But organizers have been warning that both their resources and personnel were nearing exhaustion.
“This reliance on NGOs is not working and is unsustainable — they are overwhelmed and underfunded,” Bowser said in her letter. She has repeatedly stated that the influx was stressing her government’s ability to care for its own homeless residents and required intervention from Biden’s government.
“We know we have a federal issue that demands a federal response,” Bowser said at a July 18 press conference.
In her letter, Bowser harshly criticizes Abbott and Ducey, accusing them of “cruel political gamesmanship” and saying the pair had “decided to use desperate people to score political points.”
Bowser does not have the authority to personally order a National Guard deployment, an issue that has become emotionally charged in recent years as a symbol of the district’s entrenched status as less than a state.
Her limited authority played a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol building by supporters of former President Donald Trump. When it became clear that the US Capitol Police were overmatched by the crowds, Bowser couldn’t immediately deploy the district guard. Instead, crucial time was lost while the request was considered inside the Pentagon, and protesters rampaged through the building.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2131761/world
Surge-the-Border Joe hasn't commented, apparently.
Abbot and Ducey are doing the right thing here. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the rest of Washington created this problem. It's best to move the problem to Washington, so Washington can deal with it.
The governors need to increase the pressure. About 100 busloads of "migrants" need to be dumped in Washington, D.C. daily. Meaning, the governors need about 600 or 700 buses at their disposal, more if they can get them.
It would be even better if some buses could be diverted to Sleepy Creepy Joe's "home town" of Wilmington, Delaware. Busloads could also be diverted to the hometowns of all the other creepy liberal politicians who refuse to address the border crisis.
There's no reason the southern border states should be absorbing millions of invaders, while Washington and it's various parasites get a free ride!
Operation Wetback took place before I was even born. I'm an old man now. Meaning, two generations of congress critter parasites have been kicking the can down the road. It is long past time for Washington to understand the tragic consequences of their inaction.
Shut the fucking border down! Get control of the drug smuggling, the human trafficking, and all the rest of the human misery flowing across the border.
If some of those illegals rape and kill a congress critter's daughter, instead of some unknown woman in Texas, or Colorado, or New Mexico, how long do you think it would take to get things under control? No one cares about an unknown 9 year old girl being raped by an illegal alien in Ohio, until that girl can be used for political gain, right?
EDIT: Vidya here of the White House Spokesbimbo evading questions on the subject: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/28/peter-doocy-exposes-wh-hypocrisy-about-illegal-aliens-overrunning-dc-n603347
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 30 2022, @11:52AM (17 children)
The right has it's fairy tales, often times published in works such as Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Alice in Wonderland. We joyfully tell out kids about Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, but when kids begin to think for themselves, we give it up.
The left has it's fairy tales, in the form of Critical Race Theory, which they are trying to teach to all students, all government workers, and to academia. FFS, give it a break. CRT should be given the same weight as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @03:42PM
The right's favorite fairy tale is the Bible. Unfortunately, they want to impose it on everyone by turning the United States into a theocracy and establish a Christian caliphate.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 30 2022, @05:01PM (7 children)
The right's fairy tales are more along the lines of "white genocide," supply side economics, the Prosperity Gospel, and the just-world fallacy. You really think you're the smartest person in the room, don't you? Amazing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 30 2022, @05:28PM (6 children)
I often am, since you ask. Not here, maybe, but still, I often am. And, no, you've already told us how smart you are. 92nd percentile just doesn't cut it for intelligence, and your wisdom leaves a lot to be desired.
It's good that I married a woman who is both intelligent and as smart as I am. I get bored with most of the rest of you.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 30 2022, @06:38PM (2 children)
Then go away. We're all bored, or worse, with you too.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @09:49PM (1 child)
Why don't you speak for yourself, John?
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2022, @04:02PM
I like Azuma, generally insightful comments even with the acerbic taunts. Conservatives are such snowflakes, rarely see Azuma go overboard but oh the humanity when she lets loose on you dipshits! Waah waaah evil foul mouthed WOMAN! LOLOL triggered spotted dicks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @11:41PM
Single-wides have small rooms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2022, @05:46AM
That's the Runaway, a real stable second quartile genius.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @05:21PM (7 children)
Gotta love when the ignorant spew bile and do not realize that anyone with the slimmest knowledge of CRT recognizes a frothy mouthed nutjob like runaway when they see one. You are like a lamer, stupider version of holocaust deniers. I bet you unironically say the civil war was about state's rights amirite??
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 30 2022, @05:37PM (6 children)
Whatever. That's why Joe Burden and company want to install a Thought Tzar in the Department of Homeland Security.
Civil war? If it were about slavery, the emancipation proclamation would have been proclaimed before the first regiment of the Grand Old Army rolled south. Lincoln and his generals only made the proclamation halfway into the war, in the hopes that hordes of runaway slaves would weaken the South's logistics, not to mention their resolve.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @05:58PM (1 child)
I believe the promise/threat of a civil war is overstated, now. They shot their wad during the covid wars of 2000, when they paid BLM/antifa big bucks to attack American cities more than 500 times.
Look at where it stands now, they don't have the organization or the skills to fight, when the other side actually decides to fight back. Get past the false flag attacks and cop car burning, and they don't have much. Look at the polls of True Believers, a few weeks ago it was down to 15%... last week it was around 13%. And of course, pussyhat protesters are not a formidable offense (in the tactical meaning of the word), and they'll be quickly running for the buses waiting on the side streets. The only serious threat is the China-financed attacks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @06:27PM
Hmm... 2020. Freudian about 2000, I suppose, since that's when the Internet bubble burst and the Clintonistas really entrenched. In retrospect, Jimmy Carter wasn't quite as big of a disaster as he could've been.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @08:28PM
Aww, poor numb nutz runaway trying to avoid the historical facts. Sounds about white. You can go read the articles of seccession from all the confederate states any time you'd like, but of course you try and use something to liberals did to justify your deliberate obtuseness. Go fuck yourself you white supremacist clown, arguing that the civil war wasn't about slavery is THE most common tactic used by white supremacists. You are a gross cowardly traitor to the United States.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @11:53PM
If it was about slavery, they would have mentioned it repeatedly in their Declarations of Secession.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2022, @11:57PM
Lee lost, get over it.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2022, @06:03AM
Dilate harder.