The House passed a bill on Nov. 30 that would prohibit federal funding toward housing illegal aliens on land managed by federal land management agencies.
The legislation, introduced by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), passed 224–203, with one voting “present.”
The Protecting Our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act of 2023 would block federal taxpayer dollars for “housing to specified aliens on any land under the administrative jurisdiction of the federal land management agencies, including through leases, contracts, or agreements.” This includes the Forest Service, National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.
The bill would also revoke the lease between the federal government and New York City for Floyd Bennett Field, where scores of illegal migrants were due to be settled, though some left after arriving there.
The legislation passed the House Committee on Natural Resources on Oct. 26 in a bipartisan vote.
An amendment introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) that would permit “the Interior Secretary to provide housing when the originating state has failed to meet certain criteria” failed, 206–223, with one voting “present.”
“Turning our federal parks into encampments for unvetted migrants from all over the world is unfair to surrounding communities and the taxpayers being forced to foot the bill while having their public spaces taken away,” said Ms. Malliotakis in a statement.
Ms. Malliotakis celebrated the passage of her bill.
“My bill to STOP Biden-Hochul-Adams from housing migrants in our federal parks has just passed the House with bipartisan support! Now it’s your turn Senator Schumer—do the right thing!” she posted on X, formerly Twitter.
It is unlikely the Democrat-controlled Senate will take up her bill.
Additionally, the White House has come out in opposition to Ms. Malliotakis’s bill.
In a statement of administration policy, the Office of Management and Budget said the bill “would significantly restrict the ability of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to make decisions regarding the appropriate uses of their lands and resources, even in emergency or other situations.”
The bill is not the only one introduced by Ms. Malliotakis to not allow federal funding to go toward housing illegal aliens.
She introduced legislation in September to prohibit federal taxpayer dollars from housing illegal immigrants on U.S. military installations.
These bills come as Republican governors in the South, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, have sent illegal migrants to left-wing cities, including New York City, Chicago, and Washington.
The United States was designed only for those capable of Self-governing. Those who would crash our gates and enter with the hopes of living lives of social dependency need to be told up front,,,,,grow up or get out. This great American experiment of Self-governace cannot collectively succeed when individually people are collectively government rewarded for being socially dependent. Taking responsibility for the basics of life, like food, clothing, shelter, and medicating one’s health is basic adult life 101, and the definition of individual freedom. Anything other than that where you have to socially redistribute the hard-earned personal property of others to survive, and still calling yourself free is a delusion. The children in adult bodies now already on the dole need a good spanking, and the ones illegally entering the USA looking to eat free rather than breath free need to be thrown out of the country before they become a voting majority.
There shouldn’t even BE A NEED to do this, as it should ALREADY BE ILLEGAL TO USE US tax payer funds, to FUND THE housing of illegals on Federal property.. IF i as an American citizen, can’t freely camp out on say Military bases, ILLEGAL INVADERS< shouldn't be allowed.
inluminatuo “need to be thrown out of the country before they become a voting majority.”
This is the exact intensions of this treasonous, destructive, dishonest, woke, socialist Democrat Party. To import millions and millions of illegal immigrants, totally support them and then give them the right to vote. Then Bingo we the U.S.A. are a Socialist Democrat Party Dictatorship! 🙁 🙁 🙁
OUR constitution is EXPLICIT IN that voting is for US Citizens. BUT since when has that stopped the demonic demon-rats from giving OUR RIGHTS TO illegals!?
People coming. We need to be ready to accommodate and get these people in a position to be productive participating guest pending full citizenship. Didn’t stop us from coming ( we nearly wiped out a whole race doing it) . As long as sanctions in place and folks see a way to do better, don’t mean I agree but I’d be kidding my self if I act as though I don’t understand their motives for coming here.
Not just no, but HELL NO. WE do NOT need to be “accommodating”… WHAT we need to do is protect our border, AND ENFORCE OUR deportation laws…