Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Garret Graves, and Representative Anthony D’Esposito, R-NY, along with 66 other House Republican lawmakers have written a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg addressing the migrant crisis in our nation’s airports.
The DHS has flagged 11 federal sites where migrants can be housed, including Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, New Jersey’s Atlantic City Airport, Massena International Airport, which is a U.S. port of entry for the U.S.-Canada border, and a hanger at JFK Airport.
“We adamantly oppose these ill-conceived plans that blatantly ignore the true crisis at hand and would inappropriately utilize America’s infrastructure,” the lawmakers say. “Our Nation’s airport infrastructure was built to facilitate commerce and transportation, not to serve as housing for unvetted and undocumented migrants. We request that you enforce public airport grant assurances and reject such plans.”
“It is your responsibility to direct the FAA to reject any attempt by a Federal, state, or local agency to use airport facilities for such a nonaeronautical and incompatible purpose as housing migrants,” they say.
Stefanik said she has “fought against Massena International Airport being converted into a housing site, turning Upstate and North Country into a surrogate ‘Sanctuary City.’”
“American airports are not camps for illegal immigrants and I will continue to do all in my power to fight Joe Biden’s open border policies and keep NY-21 safe,” she said.
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