Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said it’s time American taxpayers stopped financing the smugglers and human traffickers, and has introduced a “Stop Taxpayer Funding of Traffickers Act.”
“This legislation will put an end to our tax dollars subsidizing traffickers,” Blackburn said at a press conference on Feb. 15.
Blackburn said she, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss), and Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) recently toured the Southern border and were appalled at what they found. Blackburn described watching a family, including young children and a grandmother, crossing the frigid Rio Grande. Blackburn asked why they would take such a risk with their children.
“They said, ‘Biden told us to come.’ They feel like it’s an open border. It’s chaos,” Blackburn said….