Posted on 08/21/2019 5:15:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has moved to block the Trump administration's construction of a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in the district
The Washington Post reported that Bowser blocked the shelter's construction by using emergency regulations that bar the city's child welfare agency from issuing licenses to facilities that house more than 15 people.
Federal officials had planned to oversee the construction of a 200-bed facility in the Takoma neighborhood built by Maryland-based contractor Dynamic Service Solutions.
The federal government awarded Dynamic Service Solutions with a $20.5 million contract to build the facility, but the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency later found the contractor's application to be "inadequate," though it did not reject it completely, an unnamed D.C. official told the Post.
Bowser said Wednesday that she would not block the construction of all facilities, according to the Post, but added that her administration was committed to “making sure emergency housing facilities that support children are small and dignified."
“If the Trump-Jemal approach was presented with smaller, dignified facilities with known providers, the District of Columbia’s response would be different,” said Bowser's chief of staff, John Falcicchio, referring to the developer behind the effort. “No more warehouses.”
At a press conference last week, Bowser reportedly highlighted the 2014 disappearance of an 8-year-old from a homeless shelter in the district as a reason for maintaining limits on shelter sizes.
“We know when facilities are too big to support children, okay?” the mayor said, according to the Post. “And I don’t need to remind anyone we don’t know where Relisha Rudd is, and her parent was with her.”
According to the Post, six residents in the district who once held senior positions in the Department of Health and Human Services under former President Obama had written to Bowser last week, urging the mayor to reconsider opposition to the planned shelter.
SNIP
Ship them home.
‘children’
To the Dhimmis, that’s anyone under 35 ?
So in the interest of protecting them, she blocked construction of a facility that would help and protect them.
She wants things arranged so they can steal at will and it’s nothing more than that!
Sounds like:
Help them with your money, not mine.
House them in your neighborhood, not mine
Typical Rat NIMBY.
Sad. She’s just another leftist bitch.
That’s $100,000 per child.
Why not just build each one a house?
That’s right.
It is much more important for the Liberals to make their political statement, than it is to try to solve the problems they are bitching about.
“Sounds like:
Help them with your money, not mine.”
The federal government provides 25% of the District of Columbia’s operating budget. If DC wants to be uncooperative, perhaps it is time for them to stop being subsidized by the rest of the country.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, once the “Great Black Hope” for fixing the multiple ills of the corruptly run city of DC, is just doing what all liberals (white, black, etc) when it comes to illegal immigrants, NOT IN MY BACKYARD or NEIGHBORHOOD.
“We don’t get down with our brown brothers and sisters, just exploit them for votes and to attack the Republicans”.
“We don’t need no Taco Bell in the ‘hood. We’ve got Ben’s Chili Bowl”.
The hypocrisy is screaming here in the DC metro. Oh, yeah, sanctuary city calls this center a concentration camp. Bowser welcomes illegals, but getting dumped on with a bunch might upset her constituency.
WAIT!!!! Where is a Judge who will intervene with an injunction to this racist Mayor’s attempt to block shelter for these children??????
awfully racist of the mayor don’t ya think?
why not just give them 50K and send them home?
The DIM “leaders” in WDC always are absolute nitwits .
They still got mayor smokey the crack?
What jurisdiction does the mayor of DC have over anything within the borders of Takoma Park MARYLAND?
Muriel is appropriately named...for a DOG. Here, Bowser! Here, Bowser!
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