Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott effectively told Washington, D.C., Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser to pound sand Thursday afternoon after she complained that the border state was flooding her city with illegal aliens.
The exchange comes as critics and many experts have said that Democrat President Joe Biden’s policies have led to the unprecedented border crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens flood southern border states for the overwhelming majority of Biden’s presidency.
“With pledges from Texas and Arizona to continue these abhorrent operations indefinitely, the situation is dire, and we consider this a humanitarian crisis — one that could overwhelm our social support network without immediate and sustained federal intervention,” Bowser wrote in requesting help from the National Guard.
“We’ve had a number of discussions,” she said. “We’ve facilitated FEMA’s involvement with a million dollar grant that has now been increased to work with a lead nonprofit agency. We’ve facilitated using those grant funds to set up respite center in a neighboring jurisdiction and I’ve also asked the Secretary of the Army to deploy the D.C. National Guard to help lead that effort.”
Abbott responded on Twitter, writing: “D.C. is experiencing a fraction of the disastrous impact the border crisis has caused Texas.”
DC has the option of busing them back, south of the border.
Mayor Bowser should be proud to be engaged in this great humanitarian effort….. Or is it just “not in MY back yard”???
Why is BOWSER complaining? When I was in school DC was FEDERAL property and was governed by the CONGRESS. DC is separate from the STATES. SO they have to blame Congress and Congress has to authorize it not her fake position of MAYOR.
Where was she at when PRESIDENT was refused to use NATIONAL GUARD for the security on JAN 6? Pelosi and Congress refused their use , SO SHE NEEDS TO DEAL WITH IT.