DC begs Biden for help with border crisis

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President Joe Biden still won’t admit that his own policies have created a self-inflicted emergency on the southern border. But the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., is now begging the Biden administration for help with what she is calling a “humanitarian crisis” — one that stems directly from Biden’s refusal to take illegal immigration seriously.

In a letter dated July 19, the district’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency director, Dr. Christopher Rodriguez, asked Biden’s Defense Department to authorize the activation of the D.C. National Guard to help prevent “a prolonged humanitarian crisis in the nation’s capital.”

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