WASHINGTON – A Republican senator wants DC to pay attention to states before sending migrants from the US-Mexico border to other jurisdictions.
“Americans deserve to know who is being denied entry into their communities at taxpayer expense,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) exclusively told The Post.
The National Oversight of Community-Transported Immigrants Act (NOTIS), which Marshall introduced on Thursday, would compel federal agencies to provide important information to states about immigrants the government relocates to their locations.
“The Secretary of Homeland Security and the secretary of Health and Human Services shall notify the governor of a state and the chief executive officer of a local government unit in such circumstances of any alien being transported by … entity[ies] receive federal funding for such transportation from a location within 100 miles of a United States border,” the law said.
The required information — to be sent before any immigrant leaves — will include name, age, gender and country of origin, criminal record and disclosure of whether the individual has been or is associated with a gang, according to a copy of the law obtained by The Post.
Senator Roger Marshall introduced a bill that would require the federal government to notify states before deporting migrants from the US-Mexico border. AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough Migrants board a bus in Eagle Pass, Texas, that will transport them to New York on September 22, 2023.James Keivom
In addition, the agency would have to disclose “the types of security checks that have been conducted” on immigrants, according to the bill.
The legislation comes as New York, Washington, DC, and other liberal locations grapple with a surge of immigrants as border states like Texas bus new arrivals to their jurisdictions.
“You would think when you have Democratic governors in deep blue states like Illinois and New York complaining about the pressure and cost of transporting immigrants in their states, that this administration would start showing a willingness here in Washington to get the border, but no,” said Marshall.
In September and October 2022, at least two migrant flights carrying more than 25 minors arrived at the Orange County Airport in Montgomery, NY from El Paso, Texas. The upstate village’s mayor attacked Biden at the time, calling the operation “clandestine.”
“We were never notified of any flights coming into the airport,” Montgomery Mayor Steve Brescia told The Post. “It’s just disturbing that we weren’t informed about this.”
Migrant families arriving at the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on October 26, 2023.ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA
The immigrants were sent to 12 locations, including children’s homes and shelters spread across three states and the New York City suburbs.
Despite criticizing Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for sending migrants north, the Biden administration has been conducting the secret flights since at least last year.
“Joe Biden’s border crisis has made every community across the country less safe,” Marshall said. “There is nothing about an incursion on our southern border that is compassionate, it is certainly not safe, and it is completely unsustainable.”
The notification requirement will only apply to immigrants sent by the federal government. No such information is required on new arrivals sent by the state or privately funded groups.
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