Posted on 09/09/2022 4:03:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The mayor of the city of Washington has declared a public emergency over the influx of illegal immigrants into the nation’s capital.
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the emergency on Sept. 8. The city has received some 9,400 illegal aliens from the states of Texas and Arizona, according to her office.
“Our response involves how can we live up to our values and make sure we have a humane, efficient process to deal with a crisis not of our making,” Bowser, a Democrat, told reporters during a briefing.
The declaration enables the mayor to establish a new office, the Office of Migrant Services, specifically to help the illegal immigrants arriving from the border states.
The office will receive an initial $10 million to establish the office, which will help nonprofits and others greet, house, and feed the illegal aliens. The city hopes to either use federal funding or be reimbursed for the spending.
The system overseen by the office will be separate from the city’s homeless response.
A new system is necessary “so that our homeless services system can continue to function in support of DC residents and so that we can properly respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis and provide a humane assistance to migrants,” Bowser’s office said in a slide shown at the briefing.
Washington is a so-called sanctuary city, meaning it openly welcomes illegal immigrants and restricts cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Remember when they locked American citizens out of DC with wire fencing and the National Guard?
Payback’s a b!tch.
Well, Washington DC IS an sanctuary city.
Enjoy the “suck”
But no problem problem when Texas has 100,000 times the problem.
Start sending them to Biden admin official’s home towns and leftist congressional districts.
This is good stuff.
Irony is an often misused term. THIS is ironic...
I think the proper word is "schadenfreude"...
Bingo! Common sense is oblivious to leftists in their sacred and sacrosanct “sanctuary cities.” What feckless fools. Destroying the country and culture while claiming their hierarchy above us all. Damnable fools.
These democrat mayors are revealing themselves to be the hypocrites we always knew they were.
Hmmm... I wonder if the immigrants, after they left Ellis Island, were given housing and food to eat back in 1890's thru 1920's. (?)
Yep, Washington broke it now they own it.
Wonder what would happen if a bus loaded up with Patriot conservatives and headed to DC? Wanna bet the National Guard would intercept them before they got half way.
I have this mental image of this winter, folks struggling to stay warm, sleeping on cold concrete in an unheated parking garage...
Never mind, those were National Guardsmen.
flood?
LMAO
Texas gets more than that every hour!
I want them dropped off in Martha’s Vinyard and the Hamptons!
Is this the same Bowser that used to sing bass for Sha Na Na?
Haha...drop them off via ferry directly on the beach at the Biden and Obama summer mansions.
lmao.
Indeed.
Stolen Elections come at a very high price and bring dire consequences.
“... to deal with a crisis not of our making,”
Always with the blame. And $10,000,000 for an office? Why complain, there’ll be unaccountable money flying around left and right.
Now she knows what it’s like on our southern border.
Awww…and just when gentrification was cleaning up the bad neighborhoods by pushing all of the “trash” across the MD line into PG County. Deal with it, DC.
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