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Condemning the Use of Elementary and Secondary School Facilities to Provide Shelter for Aliens Who Are Not Admitted to the United States

Floor Speech

Date: June 22, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague, Chair Foxx, for yielding me time.

I rise today in support of my resolution, H. Res. 461, which bans the Biden administration from using schools to house illegal aliens.

As a mother and a physician, I do not see how my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can let this stand.

Using school facilities as shelter for illegal aliens, instead of as schools, as they were intended, creates a host of issues ranging from safety hazards for young children to a free fall of security issues as a result of not providing adequate accommodations or security screenings. At a minimum, it deprives students of their space for recess and physical education and imposes financial burdens on schools for cleaning and housing.

Municipalities such as New York City are using school gymnasiums as overflow housing for illegal aliens and setting troubling precedents for the future. It is easy to be a sanctuary city when you are not affected by the border until the Biden administration opens those borders.

Diverting educational resources to illegal aliens, or any demographic, and not in a natural disaster--and in most cases we have little or no background information upon these individuals--provides an avoidable and incredible security risk.

We must protect America's children and save our educational systems from being robbed of their purpose.

The Biden administration's open border policies have turned every State into a border State. And a broken immigration system, paired with the lack of responsibilities and execution of border security, is simply not good enough.

Speaking of the minority's comments on useless resolutions, last Congress, the Democrats introduced a total of 982 resolutions, of which only 176 passed.

H. Res. 461 sends the Biden administration a clear message that their open borders and broken immigration system will not stand, and I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation.

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