Republicans probe DHS Secretary Mayorkas over role in housing migrants on federal lands
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House Republican leaders on the Natural Resources Committee are probing DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' role in placing migrants on federal lands in New York.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
While DHS, according to the letter, intervened to ensure Floyd Bennett Field, in New York City's Brooklyn borough, would be leased to the local government for migrant housing, the land is managed by the Department of the Interior (DOI) and NPS. In one interview, a senior DOI official told congressional investigators that they "did what DHS asked us to do" when they moved forward with the plan last year.
"The Committee is deeply concerned with the Biden administration leasing NPS land for use as a migrant encampment, a use that is not only inconsistent with the National Park Service Organic Act, but publicly recognized as legally perilous by DOI," Westerman and Gosar wrote to Mayorkas.
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