On the recordJuly 18, 2023
I support the legislation today that will allow the Department of Education to withhold Federal funding from schools that house illegal aliens at public school facilities. This bill focuses on schools, but the issue here is only a symptom of a much larger problem, a blatant disrespect for the Federal immigration laws by this President and the Democratic Party at large. It is no coincidence that cities like New York and Chicago have announced plans to shelter hundreds of immigrants in school gyms and college dorms. These sanctuary cities are breaking the law by refusing to enforce Federal immigration policy. These cities blatantly defy the law of the land and then beg the Federal Government for money when they can't handle the consequences that come with their participation in unchecked illegal immigration. Americans have been suffering under this pattern of lawlessness for years, and it is time for it to stop. President Biden has violated his Article IV, Section 4 constitutional duty to protect the States from invasion, and now it is our American schoolchildren who are paying the price. I think the mother of a kindergartner and a second grader at a New York school said it best: ``Why would I bring my child to a school where there [are] grown adult men in their gym?…





