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Daines: Air Marshals are for Safeguarding our Skies, Not Cleaning up Biden’s Southern Border Crisis

Calls on Biden Administration to Recall Air Marshals from Border During Busiest Travel Season of the Year U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to immediately recall Federal air marshals (FAMs) from the southern border and return them to air service in order to protect flying Americans. “I am writing with great concern for the potential impacts the diversion of air marshals of the Federal Air Marshal Service from our nation’s skies to the U.S. southern border may pose to air travel Federal air marshals (FAMs) serve a critical role in ensuring

Daines Calls Attention to Rise in Criminals Crossing the Southern Border at Senate Leadership Press Conference

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference highlighting the drastic increase in criminals coming across President Biden’s wide-open southern border. To watch Daines’ remarks, click HERE. “It’s not lost on the American people, the irony, the fact that President Biden is travelling all the way out to the Bay Area, San Francisco, to meet with Xi Jinping. I’m just asking could he perhaps make a diversion and stop at the southern border on the way home to see what’s going on and the disaster that’s happening as we speak, where many, many

Daines Highlights Terror Threat at Southern Border, Condemns Rise in Anti-Semitism Around the World

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference where he highlighted the terror threat at the United States’ southern border and demanded President Biden change policy, including tightening asylum standards, reforming the parole program and finishing the border wall. Daines also raised concerns about the rise of antisemitism in the United States and demanded all instances of antisemitism be forcefully condemned by American leaders. To watch Daines’ remarks, click HERE. “The odds that terrorists are coming across our southern border into the United States are increasing on an hour -by -hour basis. Last week if you remember I spoke about Cuba, Iran, North

Daines Introduces Bill to Require DHS To Report Monthly on Terrorist Watch List Encounters at Southern Border

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines introduced legislation that would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide a monthly report to Congress on terrorist watch list encounters at the nation’s southern border. Under the Biden administration, we have seen historic numbers of individuals on the FBI’s terrorist watch list encountered at the southern border. “Since October 1st, hundreds of individuals from Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria – all state sponsors of terror – have entered the United States through our southern border,” said Daines. “We need real policy changes at our wide-open southern border to prevent potential terrorists from putting Americans

Daines Witnesses Biden’s Southern Border Crisis Firsthand

“This is no longer a policy failure. This is a national security crisis.” U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines visited McAllen and Brownsville, Texas, yesterday to meet with Border Patrol Agents and get a firsthand look at President Biden’s southern border crisis. Daines received a tour of the U.S Customs and Border Protection Rio Grande Valley Sector Processing Center “Ursula,” a briefing at U.S. Border Patrol Brownsville Station and tours of the Camp Monument site and border fence along the Rio Grande River. Click HERE to download TV elements and HERE to download photos. “Montana is a northern border state with a southern border crisis. After my visit to the

Daines to Visit Southern Border Tomorrow

Will Tour Texas Border, Migrant Processing Center, Receive Briefing from Customs and Border Patrol BROWNSVILLE, TX – U.S. Senator Steve Daines will be visiting McAllen and Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday, October 11th to get a firsthand look at the southern border crisis, tour a migrant processing facility and receive briefings from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. Daines issued the following statement. “The crisis on our southern border is breaking records left and right and make no mistake, it is a direct result of President Biden’s reckless, irresponsible open-border policies. The flood of illegal immigrants and deadly drugs is turning every state into a border state and

Daines Sounds the Alarm on President Biden’s Southern Border Crisis

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference slamming President Biden’s disastrous open border policies. To watch Daines’ remarks, click HERE. “So, we’ve talked a lot about the border crisis. If there should be a fire alarm pulled right now, it is the alarm that we’re seeing on the southern border with some 11,000 illegal crossings happening every day in this country. Make no mistake, the crisis that we’re witnessing is a direct result, there’s cause and effect, because of Joe Biden’s failed open border policies. “Look at any illegal apprehension chart, you’ll see we hit

Daines Backs Comprehensive Border Security Bill to End Biden’s Historic Southern Border Crisis

U.S. SENATE – U.S.Senator Steve Daines cosponsored the “Secure the Border Act” to resume construction on the border wall, tighten asylum standards, criminalize visa overstays, increase the number of Border Patrol Agents, defund organizations receiving tax dollars to help traffic illegal aliens, prohibit Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using its app to assist illegal aliens and more. The bill has passed the House of Representatives as H.R. 2 and is the most comprehensive border security bill in decades. “President Biden’s dangerous open border has allowed Montana to become a northern border state with a southern border crisis,” said Daines.“On Day One Biden rolled back

Daines Delivers Powerful Remarks on the Human Cost of Southern Border Crisis

U.S. SENATE – Senator Steve Daines spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate today about the fentanyl epidemic that is a direct result of the Biden administration’s failure to secure the southern border. Specifically, he highlighted Reilly Schrapps, a 24 year old from Butte who died after taking a pill laced with fentanyl last summer.   Click HERE to watch full remarks and HERE to download. Excerpts from Daines’ remarks as prepared for delivery: “When most people talk about the fentanyl crisis gripping our communities today, they talk about the numbers. And the numbers are powerful. In 2022, synthetic opioids, like deadly fentanyl, claimed over 75,000 lives in our country. It’s estimated over 150 people die

Daines Introduces Bill to Protect Montana Communities Amidst Biden’s Southern Border Crisis

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines introduced a bill to protect Montana communities from President Biden’s southern border crisis.  “Montana is a northern border state with a southern border crisis, and our communities are feeling the effects of President Biden’s open-border policies. We must put an end to ‘catch-and-release’ policies that put Montana families and communities in danger,” Daines said.  The “Keep Our Communities Safe Act” would close the legal loophole that requires immigration authorities to release back into the United States illegal aliens who have not been accepted for deportation to other countries after being detained for six months – a practice