Senator Bill Hagerty | Official U.S. Senate headshot
Senator Bill Hagerty | Official U.S. Senate headshot
U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) voted Friday to stop the Biden Administration from using taxpayer funds to charter flights for illegal aliens wishing to “settle” in U.S. cities further from the border. Hagerty's amendment bill to halt the transport of illegal aliens was killed by Democrat Senators who voted against it.
"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," Hagerty wrote in a post on X. "Indefensible."
There were 51 Democrats who killed the amendment by Hagerty, which would have blocked funding of the secret flights.
All Republicans voting supported the bill, which failed 51-47.
A March 4 Center for Immigration Studies report revealed the existence of the flights, which have carried an estimated 320,000 illegal aliens to 43 U.S. Airports. Biden Administration officials admitted the flights exist, but have refused to reveal to where and when they have specifically been taking place.
Freedom of Information Act requests by Chicago City Wire show that dozens of daily flights have arrived at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, where thousands of illegal aliens have been living.
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