Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) effort to make the federal government more transparent about the nationalities of illegal immigrants arrested at the border has advanced in the House.
The Special Interest Alien Reporting Act was passed by the House Homeland Security Committee in a 15-12 vote on Wednesday.
The bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to release statistics regularly about the number of illegal immigrants caught at the border if they are from certain “special interest” countries that pose national security threats to the United States, as well as the area of the border where they were apprehended.
The DHS defines a “special interest alien” as a “non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to
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