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Daines Joins Colleagues in Demanding Answers After Release of Suspected ISIS Terrorists at Southern Border into the U.S.

U.S. Senator Steve Daines joined a group of Republican senators in sending a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers after individuals with suspected ties to ISIS were apprehended at the southern border, underwent vetting and were then released into the United States.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently arrested these individuals after one was reportedly caught on a wiretap talking about bombs.  “We write to express our grave concerns regarding reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of eight individuals from Tajikistan suspected to have terror ties to ISIS who

Daines Blames Biden Open Border Policies for Allowing Terrorists to Come Across Southern Border

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference slamming Joe Biden and Senate Democrats for the national security crisis stemming from the open southern border. This week, eight suspected ISIS terrorists were arrested in the U.S. after coming across the southern border.   Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. “A few months ago, back around the February timeframe, high-level individuals from Central Asia came and saw me in my office. They warned us that there were tens of thousands of Central Asians streaming across our southern border over the course of the last year. They were concerned

Daines Discusses Biden’s Southern Border Crisis on Fox News’ America Reports

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox News’ America Reports in studio with John Roberts and Gillian Turner to discuss President Biden’s ongoing southern border invasion. Daines on Criminals Flooding the Southern Border: This is why Americans can’t wait to vote in November of 2024. I remember when we had President Trump here, he was negotiating with the Mexican government. That’s how we got the Remain in Mexico policy put in place. He told the Mexican government, ‘it’s going to be this way or else’, and that was the strength we need. And I mean, thank God for our sheriffs, for Governor Abbott, for the National Guard of

Daines: Biden, Senate Democrats Care More About Installing EV Charging Stations at the Southern Border than Stopping Terrorists

Slams Biden for funding “Environmentally-Friendly” border while Hezbollah Terrorist Enters U.S. U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference slamming Biden for trying to make the border green rather than secure: Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. “The thing I have observed over the last couple of weeks is that President Biden, the Democratic allies in Congress, they care more about installing EV charging stations at the border than stopping terrorists. “You recall that the Inflation Reduction Act, which every Senate Democrat supported, obviously did nothing to stop inflation, only actually accelerated it. It’s being used to

Daines: Biden Visiting Southern Border to Solve Political Crisis Not National Security Crisis

U.S. Senator Steve Daines’ remarks at today’s Republican Senate leadership conference highlight the southern border’s deadly chaos, citing an increase in fentanyl overdoses, illegal immigrants on the FBI terror watch list and the recent death of UGA student Laken Riley, who was murdered by an illegal immigrant. Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. “Three years ago, Joe Biden appointed Kamala Harris as border czar. Do you remember that? The border czar, and I quote President Biden when he said ‘she speaks for me’ and ‘is the most qualified person to do it.’ So, where is the border czar now? She won’t be with

Daines Discusses Biden’s Southern Border Crisis on Fox News’ The Story With Martha MacCallum

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox News’ The Story With Martha MacCallum to discuss President Biden’s southern border crisis. Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. Daines on the Biden-Created Border Crisis: Now, Martha, here’s the truth and here are the facts: the reason you’ve got the White House and President Biden doing a tap dance at the moment is because President Biden’s approval numbers at this point in his presidency are the worst in 75 years of American history. He’s below Jimmy Carter numbers at this point and the number one issue is the border that’s controlled by the Mexican cartels that’s out of

Daines: Secure the Southern Border, Stem the Flow of Migrants, Reform Asylum Standards

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference calling attention to the severe backlog in the immigration court system that has been caused by President Biden and Senate Democrats’ open border policies. Click HERE to watch the video. “Anyway, many of us have been involved in interviews before. Sometimes the question is ‘Where are you going to be in 10 years?’ That’s a question, you usually or sometimes hear in an interview, but now it’s the question being asked of illegal immigrants who’ve come into this country at the southern border. Hundreds of thousands of

Daines Slams Biden Administration for Allowing Potential Terrorists to Exploit Southern Border 

“If leaders across the world are concerned about our wide-open southern border, why isn’t Joe Biden?” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference slamming the Biden administration for the wide-open southern border that is being exploited by potential terrorists. To watch Daines’ remarks, click HERE. “In October, I took a trip to the southern border in McAllen, Texas, down at the Ursula processing center, and I was told by border patrol agents that there were three Syrian men have been apprehended the night before. They were there to Ursula processing center. I asked

Daines at Republican Leadership Press Conference: “Everybody Else Sees the Southern Border is in Utter Chaos, Time for the Democrats to Wake Up”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference highlighting the public safety and national security threat that President Biden’s record-breaking southern border crisis poses. To watch Daines’ remarks, click HERE. “As you see the news every week on what’s going on the southern border one might wonder are things getting better? Or how could they possibly get worse? Let’s look at the numbers for a moment. Just when we thought we hit record numbers in a prior week the next week breaks those numbers, breaks those records. Twelve thousand migrants apprehended at the border

At Senate Leadership Press Conference, Daines Slams Biden Administration for Diverting Air Marshals to Southern Border

Calls for Congress to Pass Policy Changes to Address Root of Border Crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference slamming the Biden administration for pulling Federal air marshals from flight service and deploying them to the southern border instead of addressing the southern border crisis with real policy changes. To watch Daines’ remarks, click HERE. “Well yesterday, I was at my home airport getting ready to get on a plane to head back to Washington, D.C. By the way, Montana is beautiful, and as I was spending a little time before I