Last week Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed that she had requested help from the National Guard to deal with the influx of migrants coming from Texas and Arizona. The Mayor complained that the “pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points.”
Now that this problem is having an impact on the East Coast, where the NY Times has a lot of readers, they’ve decided to address it. I shouldn’t be surprised by the tone of this article but I am. The way this is presented is completely sympathetic to the mayor who is being put upon by those mean Republican governors from border states.
A political tactic by the governors of Texas and Arizona to offload the problems caused by record levels of migration at the border is beginning to hit home in Washington, as hundreds of undocumented migrants arriving on the governors’ free bus rides each week increasingly tax the capital’s ability to provide emergency food and housing.
With no money and no family to receive them, the migrants are overwhelming immigrant nonprofits and other volunteer groups, with many ending up in homeless shelters or on park benches. Five buses arrived on a recent day, spilling young men and families with nowhere to go into the streets near the Capitol…
“This is a crisis created by Republican leaders in other states, however, unfortunately it’s fallen on the mayor to allocate resources locally,” said Brianne Nadeau, the council member who prepared the letter.
There’s a problem with that 2nd paragraph above but you get the idea. Eventually, the author gets around to mentioning that it’s not as if things would be any different if all of these folks had remained in Texas and Arizona.