Sen. Ted Cruz zinged Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser when she declared a humanitarian crisis after a whopping 4,000 migrants were dropped off in her sanctuary city by buses from Texas and Arizona. That’s a tiny fraction of what little border towns have been dealing with, but still, Bowser requested help from the National Guard to get a handle on this massive influx of migrants. The Pentagon said no then, and according to CBS News, the Pentagon is saying no a second time.
The Pentagon has rejected a second request from District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser for the deployment of the D.C. National Guard to help receive and shelter migrants bused into the city from states like Texas and Arizona. https://t.co/Gry56JFS2e
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 23, 2022
CBS News reports:
In a letter to Bowser Monday, the Pentagon said the D.C. Guard is not trained or equipped to care for migrants, and the D.C. Armory is not air conditioned, making it unsuitable to accommodate anyone overnight, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by CBS News.
The Department of Defense in its letter also acknowledged it is aware of concerns associated with uniformed military personnel in direct contact with migrants in a domestic operation.
“The DC National Guard has no specific experience in or training for this kind of mission or unique skills for providing facility management, feeding, sanitation, or ground support,” the letter states.
Huh, the D.C. National Guard isn’t trained or equipped to care for migrants. So who is? New York City, another sanctuary city, has complained that it can’t handle the influx of migrants either.
— meemee (@MeeMeeDel) August 23, 2022
— Reaganette (@Ezinger44) August 23, 2022
It’s different when it’s your home, isnt it.
— Mandi (@mslamanda) August 23, 2022
A problem that did not exist years ago and should not have existed ever would never have required any “creative solution” now.
— Stefan Tibbs (@sleepyhd1998) August 23, 2022
Why would she need the National Guard to take care of a few busloads of people from those sleepy little border towns? Surely if it's alright all those migrants are flooding our border towns, a few busloads of them in a sanctuary city would be fine, right?
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) August 23, 2022
Weird, they were so proud of being a 'Sanctuary City'.
But the second they deal with a fraction of what border towns deal with, suddenly it's a national emergency.
Almost like they had no intentions of actually fulfilling their designation of a 'Sanctuary City' at all.
— Daigotsu Elenti (@ScarletElenti) August 23, 2022
It will continue to be rejected because, if they say “yes”, the next minute they will get a flood of legitimate requests from border towns to go down there. And if they refused, then it would really hit the fan.
— Vanessa Atalanta Wisedog (@Wisedog4) August 23, 2022
Few bus loads of people and you are already asking for federal assistance
Hahaha.
Imagine being a border town dealing with these policies. You all can't handle just a simple taste of your own policies
— Steve Powell (@Kazimir1021) August 23, 2022
Deal with it.
— masterlock0220 (@MLx2022) August 23, 2022
"Sanctuary cities" stand revealed as another hollow virtue-signaling boast from incompetent Democrats who had no idea what to do if anyone ever actually took them up on the offer.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) August 23, 2022
We still get a chuckle from progressives who condemn the “brutality” of dropping off migrants in New York and D.C.
Related:
Defense Dept reportedly denies D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's request for National Guard's help with flood of migrants to her sanctuary city https://t.co/3bhooEHUe0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 5, 2022
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