The D.C. mayor said she would try again with a more narrowly tailored request for National Guard help with certain tasks related to the migrants’ arrival.
like beds in family shelters to the arriving families. Members of the D.C. Council have questioned whether the mayor is doing enough with local D.C. resources to help.
While the federal government has provided a grant to a nonprofit organization to assist the migrants, volunteers say far more support is needed. The nonprofit, SAMU First Response, has said it can only assist about half of the 15 weekly busloads of arrivals, and the shelter it has set up in Maryland for arriving families with children can only hold about 50 people who can stay only three days.
Madhvi Vahl, an organizer in the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, said that the group’s 250 to 300 volunteers are spending thousands of dollars a day in donations to respond to the migrants’ immediate needs, from shoes to medicines to Uber rides to hospitals. Volunteers greet each bus, help migrants find their way to shelters or hotels where the city pays for their lodging, and sometimes put migrants up in their own homes.
“The city should not rely on the labor and the funds of D.C. residents and volunteers to support folks and welcome folks," Vahl said, urging Bowser to pursue more extensive FEMA grants to cover the costs of housing and help for migrants. “We’re not case managers, you know? We of course have been doing our best and will continue doing it as long as we’re able. But the city needs to make a decision to actually be the sanctuary city that we claim to be.
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