Yes, something doesn’t add up. Maybe it’s not legal for the Guard to do this, but when was the last time the rats 🐀 ever worried about whether or not something was legal.
One element of this story which isn’t laid out...when you typically ask the Guard to help, there is a timeline. You generally expect to use them for a couple of weeks.
In this case, the DC crowd wanted the free labor for more than a couple of weeks. I would be guessing that DC request something to the effect of 90 days. Then you would naturally ask how this would end, and we’d get told a second request for an additional 90 day period.
I add this...having lived in that region for a couple of years. The DC homeless scam is run to help the black derelict community primary, the junkies, and the mental issue crowd. If you were to inject 2,000 Latinos (especially those under 18) into the system, the black community would raise a big stink that they were not getting their privilege’s.
Next election for mayor is November of this year. Bowser (current mayor) ought to win. The chief problem in this election...there is a Green Party candidate running, and their primary theme is statehood. Bowser on statehood, has gotten nowhere. Bowser ought to win, but there’s going to be a lot of talk about this statehood issue, and the Latinos.
The other thing they fear is a political standoff where Republican governors flat-out refuse to send NG troops to the District of Columbia.