Pennsylvania Republicans to draft bill to relocate migrants on Biden DHS flights to Delaware

Fox News' Bill Melugin reports from Texas with the latest DHS numbers and an update on border apprehensions.Republicans in the Pennsylvania State Senate plan to draft a bill that would relocate migrants entering the state on Biden administration-sponsored flights to the president's home state of Delaware.State Sen. Mario Scavello, a Republican from Mount Pocono, issued a memo to colleagues asking them to support the forthcoming bill."In the very near future, I intend to introduce legislation to address the influx of illegal immigrants being relocated into Pennsylvania," Scavello wrote, adding that his legislation will be fashioned after similar intentions voiced by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.The legislation would implement a transportation program for the relocation of migrants from the commonwealth to the neighboring state of Delaware, according to Scavello's memo."How many illegal immigrants has the president relocated to his own home state of Delaware?" he asked. MORE THAN 47,000 MIGRANTS RELEASED INTO US BY BIDEN ADMIN IN 2021 FAILED TO REPORT TO ICE"We also need to look at how much this is costing taxpayers and if Governor [Tom] Wolf and Attorney General [Josh] Shapiro were notified of the flights beforehand."Shapiro, a Democrat, is the front-runner in that party's 2022 gubernatorial primary, as Wolf is term-limited.Wolf's office recently told Fox News that migrant flights that arrived at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport on Dec. 11, 17 and 25 were not ending their journey there, but instead passing through on the way to their guardians and sponsors."Had any of the elected officials sending letters/statements asked, they would have received the same information that we have from HHS; over recent weeks, unaccompanied children passed through the Wilkes-Barre airport en route to their final destination to be unified with their parents or vetted sponsor," said spokeswoman Beth Rementer. Pennsylvania drew the attention of immigration hawks in late December after former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa. shared photos obtained by Fox News that purported to show such flights landing in Biden's birthplace of Scranton.Days after those images were released, Barletta, who is also running for governor, alleged the Biden administration directed another "ghost flight" to nearby Allentown.A World Atlantic Airlines flight touched down in Pennsylvania's third-largest city on Dec. 30, according to WFMZ.