Every Senate Democrat Votes Against Amendment Ending Taxpayer Funding of Illegal Immigrant Flights

Every U.S. Senate Democrat voted against an amendment proposed by Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) that would have stopped the Biden administration from using taxpayer dollars to fund flights taking illegal immigrants to the nation’s interior.

“Let me cut through the procedural language here,” Hagerty said. “I’m bringing forward a vote on a very simple question. Do you support Americans’ taxpayer dollars being used to fly illegal immigrants from countries like Venezuela and Haiti into America to be settled in cities and towns near you? If so, vote against me. Vote ‘no’ to preserve this practice of using taxpayer dollars using taxpayer dollars to charter planes that move and import thousands of illegal aliens into your states.”

“Make no mistake: President Biden has been secretly flying hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into blue city airports.”

The final vote was 51-47, with the amendment failing to pass.

Tonight every single Senate Democrat voted against my amendment that would stop Biden Admin from using taxpayer dollars to charter flights for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from their countries directly to American towns to be resettled.

Indefensible. pic.twitter.com/ofTnhSPnY8

— Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) March 23, 2024

American Faith reported that President Joe Biden has flown hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Latin American airports to 43 U.S. cities.

The secretive program, concealed from public knowledge, involved a minimum of 320,000 illegal immigrants, acknowledged by the administration as “inadmissible” immigrants, a significantly higher number than previously disclosed.

Despite facing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not disclosed the 43 airports where immigrants are being unloaded after direct flights from Latin America.

“While large immigrant-receiving cities and media lay blame for the influx on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing program, CBP has withheld from the Center — and apparently will not disclose — the names of the 43 U.S. airports that have received 320,000 inadmissible aliens from January through December 2023, nor the foreign airports from which they departed,” a CIS report said.

“The program at the center of the FOIA litigation is perhaps the most enigmatic and least-known of the Biden administration’s uses of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app, even though it is responsible for almost invisibly importing by air 320,000 aliens with no legal right to enter the United States since it got underway in late 2022,” said Todd Bensman, the report’s author.

The direct flight program is in addition to another one that gives CBP One users a green light into the U.S. That program, the report said, “has brought in another 420,000 immigrants from nearly 100 nations from May 2021 through December 2023.”