Washington DC at 'tipping point' with border-violating foreigners
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called the arrival of some 4,800 foreigners that illegally crossed the southern border a "humanitarian crisis" that had brought her city to a "tipping point".
Foreigners violating US-Mexico border laws has surged to record levels.
Officials in border states have grown increasingly restive over the Biden administration's refusal to manage the crisis.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott - among the most vocal critics of President Joe Biden's border policy - began offering state-funded bus rides to foreigners illegally in the US the federal government released in his state in April.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey followed suit a month later, saying the voluntary bus rides were necessary because of "little action or assistance from the federal government".
Both officials had lobbied unsuccessfully for the Biden administration to keep in place a policy that allowed border patrol to expel almost all border violators unqualified for asylum.
The Biden administration attempted to end the so-called Title 42 policy, but has been blocked in court. Texas and Arizona have meanwhile dispatched more than 150 buses filled with foreign illegal border crossers to DC's Union Station, which is at the doorstep of the US Capitol.
The massive influx of foreign nationals illegally flooding the country is an enormous financial burden on border state taxpayers.
In letters to the president and his secretary of defence, DC Mayor Bowser, a Democrat, said National Guardsmen must be activated indefinitely to deal with a "crisis that we expect to escalate".
"The volume of arrivals have reached tipping points," she wrote.
"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."
Governor Ducey said on Twitter: "Mayor Bowser is lamenting 4,000 migrants - Arizona had 43,570 border encounters in June alone."
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said: "If 4000 is a tipping point, what the hell do you call the three & a half million illegal immigrants who've crossed our southern border?"
Some invading foreigners arriving in DC do not stay long in the nation's capital, dispersing to other parts of the US.
Washington DC is one of many Democratic-led jurisdictions around the country that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement.
Foreigners violating US-Mexico border laws has surged to record levels.
Officials in border states have grown increasingly restive over the Biden administration's refusal to manage the crisis.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott - among the most vocal critics of President Joe Biden's border policy - began offering state-funded bus rides to foreigners illegally in the US the federal government released in his state in April.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey followed suit a month later, saying the voluntary bus rides were necessary because of "little action or assistance from the federal government".
Both officials had lobbied unsuccessfully for the Biden administration to keep in place a policy that allowed border patrol to expel almost all border violators unqualified for asylum.
The Biden administration attempted to end the so-called Title 42 policy, but has been blocked in court. Texas and Arizona have meanwhile dispatched more than 150 buses filled with foreign illegal border crossers to DC's Union Station, which is at the doorstep of the US Capitol.
The massive influx of foreign nationals illegally flooding the country is an enormous financial burden on border state taxpayers.
In letters to the president and his secretary of defence, DC Mayor Bowser, a Democrat, said National Guardsmen must be activated indefinitely to deal with a "crisis that we expect to escalate".
"The volume of arrivals have reached tipping points," she wrote.
"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."
Governor Ducey said on Twitter: "Mayor Bowser is lamenting 4,000 migrants - Arizona had 43,570 border encounters in June alone."
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said: "If 4000 is a tipping point, what the hell do you call the three & a half million illegal immigrants who've crossed our southern border?"
Some invading foreigners arriving in DC do not stay long in the nation's capital, dispersing to other parts of the US.
Washington DC is one of many Democratic-led jurisdictions around the country that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement.
