This Issue: DEM Mayors ask Biden Administration for taxpayer funding to help address surge of illegal aliens

Last fall, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was widely mocked for calling out the Biden Administration for flying illegal border crossers to Florida. But now, a couple of big city Democratic Mayors are also concerned about the growing population of illegal border crossers who have been resettled in their cities.

DeSantis charged that the Biden Administration was flying illegal border crossers to Florida with little notice or details and with many of the flights arriving in the middle of the night in an attempt to cover up what was being done.

The White House acknowledged the flights and joked that they weren't "in the middle of the night," but instead that they were just early in the morning.

"We are talking about early flights. Earlier than you might like to take a flight," joked then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

At the time, the New York Post reported that the "early morning" flights were also arriving at New York City area airports. It's also been no secret that Texas and Arizona -- fed up with the federal government's disinterest in the ongoing border crisis that's seen more than 2.2 million apprehensions of illegal border crossers over the last 12 months -- have arranged for busloads of illegal aliens to be relocated to places like New York and Washington D.C. where politicians have supported loose border enforcement.

NYC, DC Mayors ask for federal assistance to deal with surge

This week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams begged the federal government for additional funding to help house illegal border crossers who had claimed asylum and were resettled in his city.

"Families are arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona governments, while in other cases, it appears that individuals are being sent by the federal government," said Adams. "These states are sending people to New York without any communication or coordination: fact. We're not receiving any dollars in addition to the new responsibility that we're going to have: fact."

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is also worried about overcrowded homeless shelters in the nation's capital due to the number of illegal border crossers who have been resettled there. She's calling for a "coordinated federal response."

Notice that neither Adams nor Bowser are asking the Biden Administration to secure the Southern border. Instead, they're asking the feds to use taxpayer dollars to help cope with the huge number of illegal aliens now residing in their cities.

When voters elected Joe Biden to the White House in 2020, most expected the administration to at least try to control the Southwest border. Instead, voters are watching their tax dollars used to care for millions of illegal border crossers and an administration that doesn't see a problem with the ongoing crisis.

It's due to the border crisis, along with current economic conditions, that most expect Republicans to regain control of the House of Representatives during this fall's midterm elections, and possibly regain control of the Senate.

Unfortunately, a few Republicans, including Sen. Thom Tills of North Carolina, have been calling for more immigration rather than prioritizing border security and interior enforcement. Just last week in the House of Representatives, 62 Republicans joined most Democrats in adding a pre-emptive amnesty to the National Defense Authorization Act for close to 200,000 adult children of temporary guest workers who are on the verge of losing legal status.

But the majority of congressional Republicans are calling for legislation to secure the border and restart interior enforcement.

Back in May, NumbersUSA and a coalition of groups and former government officials who are concerned about the ongoing border crisis sent a letter to GOP Leadership in the House detailing the legislative actions needed to end the current border surge and prevent future surges should the GOP win back control of Congress in the fall. (You can read the letter here.)

If you have a Republican U.S. Representative, you'll find an action that you can take on your Action Board highlighting the letter's recommendations. For activists with a Democratic U.S. Representative, you'll also find several customized actions that you can take.

CHRIS Chmielenski NumbersUSA Deputy Director