D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has asked federal authorities for National Guard help in handling the migrants being bused to the city from the states along the southern border with Mexico, according to a new report.
Ms. Bowser submitted letters to both the secretary of defense and to the White House requesting that they activate the National Guard to accommodate some 4,000 migrants that the city has seen be dropped off in the nation’s capital, according to documents obtained by WRC-TV.
The letter to the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s office was submitted on July 19, and the letter to White House aides was submitted on July 22.