House lawmakers will consider a Republican proposal to oppose the use of public school properties by local and state governments that plan to house immigrants who illegally crossed the southern border and were released into the United States.
On Tuesday afternoon, the House Rules Committee will take up a resolution that Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Brandon Williams introduced earlier this month, titled “Condemning the use of elementary and secondary education facilities to provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the United States."Resolutions allow Congress to effectively go on the record taking a specific stance on a matter. In this case, Republicans are upset that New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Gov.
Since mid-May, 300 immigrants who ended up in New York City after being let out of federal custody at the southern border were moved by city and state officials into current and former public school gymnasiums. Adams said the city could use up to 20 school gyms to house people due to a shortage of available space across the large city.
Williams said Hochul’s recent proposal to house immigrants in dormitories on the State University of New York’s, or SUNY, campus was especially troublesome.
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