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Pentagon spurns DC mayor’s second request for National Guard help with migrants

By Ryan King
Published August 23, 2022 3:15am ET
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Pentagon spurns DC mayor’s second request for National Guard help with migrants
Silvia Moreno del Castillo, center, of Lima, Peru, holds her daughter Brisa, 3, by the hand, followed by her husband Gerardo Puente, as the family who is seeking asylum from Peru is greeted by Derick Alegria, left, and Orlando Andara, both with the nonprofit SAMU First Response, as a bus of asylum seekers who were sent from Arizona to Washington arrives, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, to a church on Capitol Hill in Washington. Moreno del Castillo had an allergic reaction on her feet and ankles while making her way to the United States and was able to receive medical care on the bus. As her court date will be in New York, she was relieved to have a safe and free passage to the East Coast from Arizona. | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Pentagon rejected a second plea from Washington, D.C., for the deployment of the National Guard to help ease an influx of migrants in the city.

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