'We recognize that we don't know and we don't have control on all that is coming towards the district,' Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said.
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, Bowser said her response includes setting up a new Office of Migrant Services to provide support to the estimated 9,400 immigrants bused to the nation's capital. While she said that most people bused in move on to other destinations, the new office will work with nonprofits to meet their needs. Migrants, who boarded a bus in Texas, are dropped off within view of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on August 11, 2022. The mayor of the nation's capital on Thursday declared an emergency in response to the influx of immigrants."We recognize that we don't know and we don't have control on all that is coming towards the district," Bowser said."But we do have control over how our values are present on all that we do.
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