Maintaining secure borders is essential to our national security, sovereignty, economic stability, and public health. The Biden Administration has shown repeatedly that they are not interested in or capable of securing our borders.
Customs and Border Protection indicates the porosity of the northern border, but especially the southern border, which has allowed record numbers of illegal crossings since President Biden’s inauguration.
The consequences of these policy failures are far reaching, turning every state across the nation into a border state. Millions of people are continuing to make the dangerous voyage because they know that if they make it across the border, they will be allowed to remain in our country even without valid asylum claims.
Two years of open border policies have completely overwhelmed not only our border towns, but also many major cities where the Biden Administration has quietly flown in and bussed thousands of migrants. Even Democrat-led state’s mayors and governors are complaining about the influx of migrants taxing the social service infrastructure and school systems. In addition, municipalities, such as New York City, are using public school gymnasiums as overflow housing for illegal aliens and setting troubling precedents for the future.
Not only does this policy fail to solve the problem of illegal immigration, but it puts American youth at risk. Housing any adult in public school buildings alongside children is unacceptable. Our schools are not hotels, they are places for learning, physical recreation, and where our kids become prepared for the future. Given the lack of proper background checks, it also puts children’s safety at risk.
With learning loss at an all-time high after COVID lockdowns, our schools must be hyper fixated on reading, math, and history, rather than being a fail safe for a failed Administration.
I introduced, and the House of Representatives passed, H.Res. 461 to ban the Biden Administration from using schools to house illegal aliens. This resolution sends a clear message to the Biden Administration that we will not stand for the consequences of their failure to enforce our immigration laws.
Republicans are serious about border security and understand how this crisis has impacted Americans.
I am proud to have spearheaded this legislation and I hope changes can be made to keep our schools safe for our children. I will fight diligently in Congress to support policies that ensure our border is secure and our enforcement officers have the resources they need. Without a secure border, we do not have a secure country.
