By J.J. Brannock (The Center Square)
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to take up legislation this week that would ban the use of public elementary and secondary schools as overflow housing for illegal immigrants, a practice some local governments have recently begun implementing.
The Committee on Education and the Workforce published the text for House Resolution 461 last week, titled “Condemning the use of elementary and secondary education facilities to provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the United States.”
The resolution’s sponsor, U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, wrote in the resolution that “school children in the United States should not bear the burden for the disastrous immigration policies of either the Biden administration or local leaders.”
Miller-Meeks said that sheltering aliens not admitted in the U.S. would and has diverted educational resources from children “already suffering from historic learning loss” after the pandemic. She cited a case of 300 immigrants sheltered in current or former public-school gymnasiums in New York City on May 16 and 17, including Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ announced plans to use up to 20 public school gyms as overflow housing.
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The resolution further said that “hosting such aliens on school campuses poses a significant safety risk to school children and compromises schools’ ability to secure their own campus.”
Miller-Meeks argues that allowing school gyms to be used as housing would also impede access to safe recreation and might force students to spend the entire school day with little exercise.
Resolution 461 also resolves that elementary or secondary schools should be ineligible to receive federal financial assistance if it shelters, houses, or provides a sanctuary for illegal aliens.
“Parents across New York spend years saving for their child’s college education in our SUNY system,” U.S. Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., who cosponsored the resolution with Miller-Meeks, said in a news release. “Now, with the stroke of a pen, Governor Hochul and her Progressive allies in NYC are exporting the migrant crisis into our children’s SUNY dorms & student housing. These undocumented migrants are unvetted and unverified, and they have no place being co-located with our kids.”
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The legislation was cosponsored by 12 other Republicans on the committee.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
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good information, thank you. just another way for the democrats to steal resources from the American taxpayer and legal citizen for their socialist agenda. this time they are targeting our children.
“House To Consider Resolution Banning Schools From Sheltering Illegal Immigrants”That our House has to “consider” (read question and debate) whether or not we should shelter people who have invaded our country (there are no such things as illegal immigrants) is terrifying.
WTF is there to consider???
These people should have been prevented from ever invading our country by whatever means necessary – up to and including the use of deadly force; invasion is an act of war!
While I absolutely do NOT want schools to be used as housing for illegal invaders (“immigrants” and “refugees” are not accurate), I also do NOT want the Federal government intruding into matter which are more properly handled on a State or County level. The Feds have zero authority to interfere with our public school systems. More accurately, the Constitution forbids them from doing so.
U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa can shove her resolution up her traitorous tailpipe. If she actually followed the Constitution and her oath of office, she would be speaking out toward repelling the invasion taking place at our borders.