Todd Rokita thanks supporters at the Indiana Republican party victory party on Nov. 5, 2024. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced he is launching an investigation into reports from residents and elected officeholders about the large scale influx of “illegal aliens” and “legal migrants” into Evansville, Logansport and Seymour.
Rokita is issuing Civil Investigative Demand (CID) documents, which are administrative subpoenas that allows federal government agencies to request extraordinary amounts of information from private entities without going through any formal court procedures. The CIDs are going to the Cass County Health Department, Logansport Community School Corp., Berry Global Group Inc., Tent Partnership for Refugees, God is Good, and Jackson County Industrial Development Corp.
“Illegal immigration caused by “border czar” Kamala Harris’ perversion and misapplication of federal law has made every state a border state and imposed unsustainable costs on Logansport and other cities across the nation,” Rokita said. “It has also created serious sex and labor trafficking risks in all communities. I’m creatively trying to use every tool in the law to stop the Left’s intentional destruction of Indiana.”
Rokita is investigating coordinated efforts among international and local nonprofit “refugee resettlement” organizations and employers to bring large numbers of migrants to Indiana communities, according to a news release from his office.
The rapid growth of alien populations in certain communities has caused overcrowding in housing facilities as multiple families and sometimes dozens of individuals reportedly share space in structures intended to be single-family dwellings. It also has raised concerns about potential labor trafficking, according to Rokita.
Rokita’s office is conducting these investigations pursuant to its authority under Indiana’s Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and indecent nuisance statute, according to the press release.
“The influx of these illegal aliens, which are coming from over 150 different countries, have strained our schools and the children of taxpayers are suffering as a result. It has caused unneeded stress on law enforcement, local hospitals and healthcare facilities, and our housing and labor markets,” Rokita said. It also raises serious questions about how these individuals’ arrival in Indiana is being facilitated, Rokita said in the press release.
