Condemning the use of elementary and secondary school facilities to provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the United States.

Subjects: Immigration


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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 461 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 461

  Condemning the use of elementary and secondary school facilities to 
 provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 1, 2023

Mrs. Miller-Meeks (for herself and Mr. Williams of New York) submitted 
   the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Condemning the use of elementary and secondary school facilities to 
 provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the United States.

Whereas sheltering aliens who are not admitted to the United States in school 
        facilities will divert educational resources from children already 
        suffering from historic learning loss;
Whereas, on May 16 and 17, 2023, about 300 such aliens were sheltered in current 
        or former public school gymnasiums in New York City, and Mayor Eric 
        Adams announced plans to use as many as 20 public school gymnasiums as 
        overflow housing for such aliens;
Whereas turning schools into housing centers for such aliens compromises 
        schools' duty to educate enrolled children and keep them safe;
Whereas hosting such aliens on school campuses poses a significant safety risk 
        to school children and compromises schools' ability to secure their own 
        campus;
Whereas using school gymnasiums as housing for such aliens may impede children's 
        access to safe recreation and physical education, may force children to 
        spend their entire school day with little exercise, and may disrupt the 
        ordinary routines of the school day;
Whereas the Biden administration has created these problems with a failed border 
        security strategy that has encouraged illegal aliens to cross the 
        border, tallying more than 10,000 a day ahead of the May 11, 2023, 
        expiration of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19, declared 
        under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d), and 
        of the concomitant power of the President, under section 362 of such Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 265), to prohibit entries of persons into the United States 
        from certain countries or places; and
Whereas the school children in the United States should not pay for the 
        disastrous immigration policies of either the Biden administration or 
        local leaders: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives condemns the use of the 
facilities of a public elementary or secondary school that serves 
students to provide shelter for aliens who are not admitted to the 
United States.
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