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MISSOULA, Mont. — Senator Steve Daines and 18 other Republican senators will tour the Rio Grande River on a boat Friday to get a first hand look at the growing emergency at the southern border.

Border officials report more than 100,000 encounters in February. More than 16,000 unaccompanied children were in government custody yesterday, but hundreds of migrants continue to stream in.

Sen. Steve Daines said the overwhelming number of immigrants crossing the southern border is having a devastating effect on his northern border state of Montana, telling Newsmax TV that drugs and human trafficking are inundating the “Big Sky Country.” “We border Canada in Montana,” Daines said on “Spicer and Co.” on Tuesday. “The reason it’s a southern border crisis for us up in Montana is the drugs that are pouring into our state.” Relating a story told to him only an hour earlier, Daines said a sheriff in Montana had seven Mexican cartel members in his jail as they spoke.

Despite representing a state bordering Canada, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., on Newsmax TV said his state has “a southern border crisis” due to Mexican cartels trafficking drugs as the Biden administration is distracted with mass migration. “This crisis is 100% the result of President Biden’s policies,” Daines told Wednesday’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “This started on Day 1 of his presidency.” And it is not just the problem of an open border for mass migration and illegals, Daines told host Rob Schmitt. “I am from a northern border state, but I’ve got a southern border crisis,” he said. “That’s because of

Vice President Mike Pence will spend the day in Billings talking about the drug crisis in America and holding a campaign event for U.S. Sen. Steve Daines. Daines and U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte traveled on Air Force Two with the Vice President on Wednesday as he made his way to Billings. Daines spoke to MTN News from Air Force 2 about the issues the Vice President will discuss during his visit. “We have a drug crisis, a methamphetamine crisis, and it’s flowing in from Mexico,” Daines said. “It’s important we address the border crisis. We are a northern border state

Montana Sen. Steve Daines on Thursday heard the plight of western Montana law enforcement agencies who’ve become embattled with the methamphetamine trade. “It’s overwhelming our communities,” Daines told reporters after the roundtable at the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. “Law enforcement does not have enough resources to deal with this crisis in Montana.” Sheriffs, deputies, detectives, National Guard officers and community coordinators from Ravalli to Lincoln counties offered the Republican senator a glimpse into the front lines of their fight with drugs, specifically meth. Many asked for more resources to both investigate and prosecute drug trafficking in their areas, as well