Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03), joining other members of the House Appropriations Committee, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The group demanded more information on reports that DHS has moved unaccompanied minors throughout the country – often, without permission from local leaders.
For example, multiple airplanes carrying unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border landed late at night on multiple days at Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center.
Upon arriving in Chattanooga, dozens of migrant children boarded multiple buses to be transported to various locations.
Furthermore, the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (TDS) suspended the license of an unaccompanied migrant minor housing facility, La Casa de Sydney. The suspension followed claims of sexual abuse.
“Since taking office last year, President Biden and congressional Democrats have gone out of their way to undermine security at the southern border and import untold thousands of migrants into our country and my home state of Tennessee. There’s no doubt that the illegal aliens released into the U.S. will disappear into communities nationwide and create stress on our economy, local law enforcement agencies, and drain taxpayer-funded services – often at the disadvantage of minority-Americans. Our focus must be on restoring border security and ensuring all public services only go to legal Americans,” Fleischmann said in a statement.
In the letter, the group expressed concerns over the use of taxpayer funds in the process:
“More galling still, further reports indicate that taxpayer money is being used to secretively ferry these individuals from detention facilities near the border to points farther into the interior of the United States, presumably for release. In addition to our concerns surrounding your department’s policies with respect to detention of illegal border crossers, it is our firm belief that taxpayer resources should not be used to transport these individuals to secondary destinations within the interior, especially without proper notification to m–embers of Congress and local law-enforcement officials as well as full transparency for the general public.”
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Cooper Moran is a reporter for The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
This has been going on for MONTHS and MONTHS and MONTHS! This started the DAY obiden was illegimately inaugurated. There have been thousands upon thousands military age men brought into this country in the middle of the night! It’s not just votes they are bringing in. Thanks a lot demonrats!
This is nothing more than an election year ploy. Fleischmann and his TN cohort Kuscher voted to fund the Federal Vaccine database. Why?
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021388
Nice, but everyone please remember that now Chuck Fleischmann i(Heritage-75%) is the most liberal of the 9 Republicans that Tennessee sends to the U. S. Congress and therefore the least fit for purpose. With any luck after the new congressman for the Fifth District is chosen he will remain the most liberal of what will then be 10 Republicans.
Make that Chuck Fleischmann (Heritage-73%). Will no one rid us of this tepid conservative pol?