Posted on 05/21/2021 4:03:00 AM PDT by gattaca
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are demanding answers in response to shocking news that the Biden administration is secretly busing and flying scores of illegal immigrants into the state.
Reports that the Biden administration has been moving thousands of unaccompanied minors and tens of thousands of migrant adults — presumably without court dates — into the country amid the ongoing border crisis have circulated since February. But this week the news hit home for Tennessee lawmakers who, alarmed that the administration is seemingly doing so "under the cover of darkness," have opted to speak out about the matter.
After WRCB-TV broke the story on Wednesday night that "Chattanooga's Wilson Air Center is receiving planes carrying migrant children who are being bused to multiple southeastern cities during overnight hours," the state's two Republican senators lashed out at the administration.
"It is absolutely unacceptable if the Biden Administration is facilitating a mass migration under cover of darkness without any input or oversight from Tennesseans and the affected communities," Sen. Marsha Blackburn wrote in a social media post Wednesday night.
In a statement to Fox News, Sen. Bill Hagerty said, "I have warned for months that President Biden's failure at the border would result in a systematic resettling of migrants in our communities, burdening our schools, hospitals, and law enforcement agencies, and bringing an increase in drug trafficking and human smuggling."
WRCB-TV reported that they have obtained videos of at least four flights arriving in the early morning hours between last Friday and Wednesday.
The news outlet noted that a source with direct knowledge of the operation who asked to remain anonymous reported that "approximately 30 to 50 minors are transported at a time, some to reunite with family members and others to go to group homes."
The source reportedly added that "the operation started in Dallas, Texas, but moved to small airports recently to avoid attention."
What else? A spokesperson for the airport denied any involvement in coordinating the operation. So WRCB-TV, based on a tip from one of the bus employees, reached out to the Department of Defense, which in turn claimed that the flights were operated by the Department of Health and Human Services.
TheBlaze has reached out to the Department of Health and Services for clarity on the matter.
One thing that does appear to be clear at this point is that Tennessee lawmakers were not informed about the operation.
In a separate statement to Fox News, Blackburn reportedly stated that the transportation of migrants is taking place in "the dead of night without the knowledge or permission of the communities involved."
Earlier this month, in a letter to President Joe Biden, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) joined a coalition of fellow Republican governors in calling for the administration to address the immigration crisis, which they claimed was affecting all states, not only those at the border.
I live TN. That is one of the state’s we’re looking to move to, but not if the pols there are going to put up with **** like this.
I already live in a Deep State hell hole.
I’m not retiring to another one.
I love TN...
Beautiful state, nice people...
Won’t be for long us this **** is allowed to continue.
What is the GOP position on doing it in the daytime?
Mission accomplished.
No one is on our side.
It was a good run, though.
You will notice that when the liberal pukes are in charge they always bus illegals and ‘refugees’ to red states, never blue states.
Their goal is to flip the states by importing commies.
Remember, the RATs could have done nothing without complicit Repugnant Kongressmen. The latter could have kept out our foreign born mongrel raghead potus if they had not already been bought. And he was the one who turned the invasion into a cottage industry.
Ain’t no such thing as the “Deep State”
There is only The Government!
“Deep State” is nothing more than the Boogie Man you were threatened with as a child.
Pack ‘em up & ship them back.
You don’t expect the Commie slugs in Blue States to support these future DemonRat Voters, do you?
The dollar is going to be worth less. Biden is doing nothing but creating more inflation. Keeping us distracted is the Democrat Media’s job.
Tennesseans Ask Gov. Lee Why He’s Soft on Illegal Immigration - Tennessee Conservative
Refugee Resettlement ~ It’s Not America’s Obligation
https://federalobserver.com/2019/12/28/refugee-resettlement-its-not-americas-obligation/
Exactly what stompy feet did.
We have a fence and razor wire around the white hut, armed guards patrolling, TN should pack them up, put them right back on the plane, send them to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC.
Of course, it’ll never happen, we don’t have any real leaders running things.
Tennesseans Ask Gov. Lee Why He’s Soft on Illegal Immigration - Tennessee Conservative
Refugee Resettlement ~ It’s Not America’s Obligation
https://federalobserver.com/2019/12/28/refugee-resettlement-its-not-americas-obligation/
Arrest the pilots for human trafficking and impound the plane.
Obama did the same thing. I was on the red eye from Phoenix to Baltimore along with 15 illegals and four turncoat American handlers.
I complained about it including on FR. Someone from FR called the local media who met us at the airport.
The sissy pansy handlers were very angry at me. Too bad.
They drove away in unmarked vans with smoked glass and no license plates.
This. I have no idea why state and local governments don’t round them up as soon as they become aware of their presence.
Bus them all to DC or one of the deep blue states. Hell, let the illegal aliens get bused around the US in a game of interstate hot potato until they get tired of it and beg to go home.
It’s probably not just about votes. The drug cartels $$ and how many of these kids end up trafficked?
Maybe, just maybe, it will occur to GOP lawmakers to actually DO something about the situation, instead of just stewing and complaining about it. It is all illegal. They do not have to roll over and accept it, especially the governors of the states.
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