Providing for Consideration of H.R. Presidential Election Reform Act

Floor Speech

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Mr. GARBARINO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge the defeat of the previous question so that we can immediately consider H.R. 6592, the Immigration Transparency and Transit Notification Act of 2022.

The crisis at our southern border is a threat to our national security, public safety, and public health. While this administration continues to tell the American people that all is well, fentanyl, the number one killer of young people in America, has flooded across the border at record rates; drug smugglers and human traffickers are thriving; and the migrants themselves are facing dire conditions all because President Biden told them it was okay to come here illegally.

Since Joe Biden took office, over 1 million undocumented immigrants have been allowed to resettle here. Long before border State Governors started busing migrants to sanctuary cities so they might share the burden of this crisis, President Biden was putting them on flights and buses in the dead of night and sending them to communities far north of the border without a warning to the people who live there or the officials who would become responsible for them.

The New York Post first exposed secret, dead-of-the-night flights of migrants into Westchester, New York, last year. But to date, the administration has refused all requests for transparency and accountability regarding these resettlements, this despite multiple letters from myself and other Members of Congress requesting that they stop these covert flights and provide information to Congress and local officials about who these migrants are and what vetting they received before being dropped off in our communities.

H.R. 6592 would require officials to be notified before undocumented immigrants may be placed in their jurisdiction and would provide Governors with the authority to refuse placement.

We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the border crisis or the strain that these relocations are placing on communities across the country.

Madam Speaker, I urge this body to act and immediately consider H.R. 6592 to require transparency and accountability of the administration for the relocation of undocumented immigrants throughout the United States and put the power to oversee these relocations in the hands of people in these communities which are most affected by it.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Source