The Pentagon has denied Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s second request to mobilize the National Guard to deal with an influx of illegal immigrants sent from southern border states after federal officials freed them.
Bowser, a Democrat, has now sent two letters sent to the White House and Pentagon asking for the Guard and describing the situation at the nation’s capital as a “humanitarian crisis.”
The first request was sent in July and rejected by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Biden appointee, on Aug. 4. Bowser followed up with a second letter asking for 150 Guard personnel for 90 days. This was rejected on Monday by a Pentagon official….