MISSION, Texas — Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., saw firsthand the situation on the southern border on Friday, and called on the Biden administration to take action,
MISSION, Texas —saw firsthand the situation on the southern border on Friday, and called on the Biden administration to take action,
"Because [President] Biden will not secure this border, every town is a border town, every state is a border state and Tennesseans are very concerned about this," she told Fox, as gunshots rang out behind her from the Mexican side of the border. Ranchers showed the senator how their fences had been destroyed and outlined the enormous costs of repairing them left up to them, along with the cost of rounding their cattle back up and losing crops.
Blackburn also spent time talking to Border Patrol members, a number of whom said that finishing the border wall, re-instating the Migrant Protection Protocols and ending"catch-and-release" are key moves that would stop the surge that has seen more than 200,000 encounters in July and August. "One thing that was quite remarkable to me was how many of these smugglers and drug runners live in government housing, they get government benefits, and their side hustle is working as a smuggler, drug mule or a trafficker -- and when you apprehend someone they should immediately lose all those benefits," she said.
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