[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 20 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H393]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 FIXING NEW YORK CITY'S MIGRANT CRISIS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. LaLota) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LaLOTA. Mr. Speaker, sending Federal dollars to New York City to 
pay for hotels and other free stuff for migrants will only make New 
York's migrant crisis worse. That is why I have offered the No Bailout 
for Sanctuary Cities Act.
  My commonsense bill will provide that sanctuary jurisdictions like 
New York City that refuse to cooperate with Federal law enforcement 
such as ICE are ineligible for Federal funds intended to benefit such 
noncitizen aliens.
  Mr. Speaker, the migrants aren't coming to New York City for the warm 
weather or the Broadway shows. The reason that migrants are coming to 
New York City, 10,000 per month, is for the sanctuary laws and all the 
free stuff--free hotels, free clothing, and free healthcare.
  New York City Mayor Adams gives a heck of a lot of free stuff to 
migrants. Well, Mr. Speaker, it is not exactly free. It is all paid for 
by lawful citizens, hardworking taxpayers.
  Just a few days ago, Mr. Speaker, it was revealed that New York City 
is giving out $53 million worth of credit cards to migrants.
  New York City Democrats are literally incentivizing migrants to come 
to New York City and then feigning frustration when they do so. Worse, 
New York Governor Hochul is doubling down, offering $2.4 billion in her 
proposed budget to New York City to give more free stuff to migrants, 
while she proposes to cut funding from 44 Long Island School Districts.
  It is these backwards, wrong, and self-defeating policy choices which 
will only make the migrant crisis worse. If we as a country want to 
secure the border and have cities without migrant crises, we need to 
remove the incentives which are causing it. No more free stuff.
  Until New York repeals its shortsighted and self-defeating policies, 
which incentivize New York's migrant crisis, it should not be entitled 
to Federal funds for the migrant crisis its policies are creating.

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