Washington mayor's plea on migrant aid rejected by Pentagon

WASHINGTON－The Pentagon, for the second time in recent weeks, rejected on Monday a request by Washington's mayor to help receive migrants arriving from Republican-led states Texas and Arizona in a bid to shift responsibility to the federal government and Democrats.

Mayor Muriel Bowser in July called for the deployment of the District of Columbia National Guard to help with migrants, but that request was denied by the US military.

She repeated her request on Aug 11－this time providing a 90-day timeline that was to begin on Monday.