Pentagon confirms DC Mayor renewed request for National Guard assistance with migrants arriving in city
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Barbara Starr, CNN Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser renewed her request for the National Guard to assist with the ongoing arrival of migrant buses arriving from Texas and Arizona.
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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has sent a new request for the National Guard to help with the influx of migrants arriving to the District. The mayor is requesting a 90 day deployment. The Department of Defense had previously denied the mayors request for the National Guard to help.
By Priscilla Alvarez and Barbara Starr, CNN Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser renewed her request for the National Guard to assist with the ongoing arrival of migrant buses arriving from Texas and Arizona.
Mayor Muriel Bowser wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday, requesting for the second time that 150 D.C. National Guard members be deployed to the nation's capital to assist with the arrival of migrants.
On Thursday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) renewed her request for the D.C. National Guard to help support the immigrants arriving to the city in busloads from the southern