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“After President Biden and his administration have incentivized
engagement of our southern border at a financial and social cost
to us, they’re now looking to turn every community into a border
community,” Miller told The Center Square. “As a member of the
Freedom Caucus, we’re loud and proud about saying we have to
secure our border.”
H.R. 461 seeks to deny federal funds to public schools that are
used “to shelter, house or otherwise serve as a sanctuary for
aliens not admitted to the United States.”
Miller, who also serves on the House Education Committee, said
Republicans are electing to act now as talk of Chicago and New
York being among the cities poised to use schools in such a way
grow louder.
In Chicago, ChicagoBusiness.com recently reported authorities
were pushing to use a shuttered south side high school as a
housing center. In May, New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed
an openness to use as many as 20 public school gymnasiums for
the same purpose.
“I’m hoping all this debate highlights the impact that open
borders are having on our schools," Miller said. “We've got to
regain control.”
Miller said she expects the measure to soon be on the House
floor for a vote and she’s confident about what the outcome will
be.
“We have the majority, so it’ll pass,” she said. “We want our
kids that are being educated in public schools to be safe and
not having to worry about people we don’t know much of anything
about.”
Democrats remain resolute against the proposal, with members on
the Education Committee blasting it as “inflammatory,
provocative, uninformed and at the end of the day, pointless.”
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, the ranking Democrat on the House Rules
Committee, went even further, adding “I think this is just
another attempt to demonize immigrants.”
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