Tag Archives: Senator Marsha Blackburn

Blackburn Introduces Bills to Empower Local Law Enforcement to Help Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens & Reinstate “Remain in Mexico” Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) reintroduced two bills aimed at strengthening border security: the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal (CLEAR) Act,which would ensure state and local law enforcement officials have the tools to help the federal government deport criminal illegal aliens, and the Make the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) Mandatory Act, …

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Fleischmann, Blackburn Lead TN Delegation in Resolution Celebrating Scarboro 85

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) led the entire Tennessee Congressional Delegation in introducing a resolution celebrating the role of 85 students from the Scarboro neighborhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the desegregation of public schools following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of …

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Blackburn, Britt, Budd Introduce Laken Riley Act in Senate, Call for Immediate Consideration

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and colleagues in introducing the Laken Riley Act which would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest illegal aliens who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses. The bill would also mandate that these aliens …

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Hagerty, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Stop Fentanyl Trafficking into the U.S.

Fentanyl smuggled across the southern border is taking more than 70,000 American lives per year WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today led a group of Republican senators in reintroducing the Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act, legislation to add drug smuggling as an additional basis for Title 42 immigration enforcement authority, thereby preserving for Border Patrol agents …

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) released the following statement in response to Putin’s increasing aggression against Ukraine:

“Vladimir Putin wants nothing more than to return to the days of the old Soviet Union, and he has made it clear he will attack the national security of the U.S. and our partners to make it happen. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has refused to take meaningful action, and his weakness has emboldened Moscow. Last year, I …

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Hagerty Files Amendments that take aim at Big Tech, Inflation, Energy Prices, Criminal Illegal Aliens

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today filed a number of amendments to the budget resolution currently being debated on the Senate floor, which is the vehicle for Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion partisan tax-and-spending spree to implement his socialist vision for …

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