DC Mayor Bowser's Emergency Action

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Only 10 to 15% of the almost 9,000 migrants who are on these buses bound for DC actually stay in D.C., says Ruben Navarrette. He met two people who you could say are the reason Bowser had to act. They're a young couple, 28 and 30 years old, and their baby is only 13 weeks away from being born.

Texas and Arizona's governors are giving migrants bus tickets to the capital. The mayor of Washington, DC, says it’s causing a humanitarian crisis in the city — and that the White House isn’t helping.

This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Serena Solin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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