The House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday will hold another hearings on migrants sheltering at a New York public park. The committee’s top Democrat called it a dead end.
The hearing — “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Biden’s Border Crisis, Desecrating National Park Lands and Damaging Communities” — is part of an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee probe into New York City’s use of Floyd Bennett Field to house migrants bused in by Republican-led states.
The investigation centers on whether New Yorkers have been deprived of those public lands, but carries election-year undertones as the GOP tries to pin blame on President Joe Biden for an influx of migrants at the southern border.
According to a GOP committee spokesperson, the panel has invited witnesses involved in the negotiations to house migrants on a National Park Service property.
