Department of Defense executive secretary Kelly Bulliner Holly told D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Monday that the National Guard is not trained to address the situation, which has been boosted by migrants bused in from Texas and Arizona in protest of the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis, and that a deployment could hamper its readiness. Bowser first asked for National Guard aid on July 19 and restored the request on Aug. 11 after the initial plea was rejected, contending the DoD did not have a firm hold on the situation.
"The DCNG has no specific experience in or training for this kind of mission or unique skills for providing facility management, feeding, sanitation or ground support," Holly wrote in a letter to Bowser, per Fox News. "Devoting the personnel or the facility for such an extended mission would force the cancellation or disruption of military training."
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Bowser's first appeal was dismissed on Aug. 4, with Pentagon officials claiming it could impede the National Guard's willingness and pointing to grant funding the city received from FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program to help fix the situation.
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In her second request, Bowser mentioned that she was merely seeking deployment for a 90-day period and claimed that the National Guard could provide much-needed logistical support to help ease the city's staffing woes amid the flood of migrants.
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Since April, Texas has transferred roughly 7,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., and about 900 to New York City, Gov. Greg Abbott's office said, per Fox News. Abbott has claimed that the move will help guarantee the "rest of America can understand" Texas's struggle amid an influx of migration at the border. Arizona, too, has been busing migrants to D.C. this year for the same reason. Many of the migrants stopped at the border have been released on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court, per the Associated Press.
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Bowser condemned the move as a "politically motivated stunt, one that could very quickly lead to a crisis within our own systems" in a tweet Monday.
Despite the Pentagon's rejection, Bowser was stubborn to suggest that the nation's capital would collaborate with non-government organizations and other federal agencies to help address the migrant situation. She also highlighted her advocacy for D.C. statehood so that the next time the city is faced with a similar crisis, the mayor "has the ability to deploy the Guard."
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