EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers from Tennessee introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require the Biden administration to consult state and local officials before resettling migrants into their communities, after it was reported that migrant children were secretly being flown into Tennessee. Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, along with Republican Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, introduced the Migrant Resettlement Transparency Act, which would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Homeland Security to consult in advance with officials in jurisdictions affected by federally funded migrant resettlement. The administration would also be required to submit a monthly report to Congress detailing state-specific resettlement and relocation efforts. "In Tennessee, the Biden administration was caught using a Chattanooga airport to secretly traffic migrant children into the interior of our country without the knowledge or involvement of state or local officials," Blackburn said in a statement. The Biden administration is dealing with a surge of migrants trying to cross the border, including 178,000 encounters in the month of April alone.

Source: Fox News May 26, 2021 23:48 UTC