[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H2982-H2983]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT BE USED AS SHELTERS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I urge this body to take up H. Res. 461 
and pass it as quickly as possible.
  Every year in this country the Federal Government, perhaps 
inappropriately, spends billions of dollars on elementary and secondary 
education. These buildings are designed and intended to be funded to 
teach the young children of this country, and not-so-young people, to 
read, to do math, to prepare themselves for a job.
  It has been brought to our attention that local officials all around 
the country, in an effort to ease the mass invasion of illegal 
immigrants across our southern border, are now using these schools as a 
shelter for people, who in

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many cases--in almost all cases--should not have come to the United 
States in the first place.
  I think it is very important that Congress weigh in immediately, 
since we are providing billions of dollars to these educational 
institutions, and say no. These educational institutions are to be used 
for education only, and we are not going to spend any more of that 
money to support people who shouldn't be here in the first place.

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