By: Wayne Dupree Staff
Republican governors have bussed thousands of immigrants to Washington, D.C., since April of last year, and the city is still having trouble accommodating the enormous influx of noncitizens. Some of the immigrants are deciding to remain in the city rather than travel to other locations, causing capacity issues for the local government that highlight the bigger problems with immigration policy in the United States.
The city has had to quickly accommodate a huge number of immigrants without any infrastructure in place to help them, according to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D). “The majority of the migrants—I’d say about 90%—move on. They want to go somewhere else, though. The roughly 10% of those who have nowhere else to go have put a heavy strain on us, Mendelson added. “We are doing everything we can to provide them with the services they need, including housing, food, and other necessities. And while we are prepared to do that, he continued, “it is really hard on us.
https://thelibertyloft.com/2023/01/29/d-c-council-wants-congress-to-step-in-and-fix-border-crossers-being-shipped-into-city/