Home Republicans from New York are urging President Biden to cease secretly transporting unlawful immigrants from the southern border to New York and different elements of the US.
The letter they despatched to the president references The Put up’s unique exposé final week about one of many clandestine flights arriving at Westchester County Airport in August — an encounter caught on police physique cam footage.
“We urge you to instantly stop any actions of transporting unlawful immigrants by airplane, or another methodology, from the Southern Border to New York State,” reads the letter, penned by Home Republican Convention chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik.
” … We demand you present Congress and all New Yorkers with the present location and standing of every unlawful immigrant you will have transferred to our state. The New Yorkers we signify are entitled to know the way your failure to handle the disaster at our Southern Border continues to affect their communities and day-to-day lives.”
The letter is co-signed by Republicans Congress members Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island; Lee Zeldin, the presumptive GOP nominee for governor from Lengthy Island; Andrew Garbarino of Lengthy Island and upstaters Claudia Tenney and Chris Jacobs.
The 51-minute recording reveals a federal authorities contractor telling a Westchester County police officer on Aug. 13, 2021, “the federal government is betraying the American individuals.”
The Boeing 737 had simply flown in from Fort Bliss, Texas by iAero Airways underneath constitution by the federal authorities — underneath cowl of darkness.
“On this video captured by an area Police Officer’s bodycam, various federal contractors are seen shepherding dozens of unlawful immigrants from a Boeing 737 to constitution buses throughout the tarmac. The contractors refuse to determine their group or employer to the Officer, stating they aren't licensed to take action,” the GOP letter says.
“This additional signifies the unhealthy religion your administration continues to behave in relating to this follow, because the contractors repeatedly describe your Division of Homeland Safety’s (DHS) intent as protecting these flights away from media protection.”
The Put up first reported final October concerning the secret flights of underage migrants from the Texas border to the airport in White Plains.
Former Westchester County Government Rob Astorino obtained the physique cam recording by submitting a Freedom of Info Regulation request.
An Immigration and Customs enforcement agent additionally revealed final week that unlawful immigrants with felony data are being launched into the US.
In the meantime, Malliotakis is co-sponsoring laws — known as the “Crime Doesn’t Fly Act” — that may block the Transportation Safety Administration from permitting unlawful immigrants to make use of arrest warrants to board flights.
TSA informed Fox Information and the Each day Caller final week that it’s permitting the warrants, which signify civil immigration enforcement, as a type of identification.
Final June, Malliotakis proposed the “Transparency of Migration Act” that may require the Division of Homeland Safety and the Division of Well being and Human Providers to make sure details about undocumented people processed by way of or apprehended by Customized and Border Safety or HHS amenities publicly out there on division web sites.
“That’s loopy that I needed to introduce a invoice for fundamental transparency,” Malliotakis stated. “It would grow to be legislation after we Republicans win the bulk.”
Democrats now management the Home however could possibly be tossed out of energy within the midterm elections in November.
A White Home official responded to the GOP letter saying there are “no things like secret flights.”
“The video is from six months in the past in August …. The footage is of unaccompanied minors being transported both to a vetted relative or to a sponsor. And sure, they handed by way of Westchester County, NY en path to their last vacation spot.
“It's our obligation to soundly take care of unaccompanied kids till they are often swiftly unified with a father or mother or a vetted sponsor. As a part of the unification course of, the Workplace of Refugee Resettlement facilitates journey for the youngsters in its custody to their household or sponsors throughout the nation.”
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