{"id":1154487,"date":"2021-12-25T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T20:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1154487"},"modified":"2021-12-25T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T20:34:36","slug":"killing-our-kids-republican-senator-decries-biden-administration-handling-of-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/killing-our-kids-republican-senator-decries-biden-administration-handling-of-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Killing Our Kids\u2019: Republican Senator Decries Biden Administration Handling Of Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkilling-our-kids-republican-senator-decries-biden-administration-handling-of-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1154487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty decried the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s response to the surges of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the United States, saying that the effects of the border crisis \u201care killing our kids here in Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty made the remarks during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagerty.senate.gov\/press-releases\/2021\/12\/23\/icymi-hagerty-joins-mornings-with-maria-to-discuss-democrats-inflationary-spending-policies-communist-chinas-human-rights-abuses\/\">interview<\/a> on Thursday, where he discussed the future of Biden\u2019s signature Build Back Better bill and the American response to China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio for leading the charge to block goods made with forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang from being imported into the United States. Rubio\u2019s bipartisan bill was signed by President Biden on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already reaching out to Secretary [Gina] Raimondo at the Commerce Department to put those entities on her entities list. These companies that have actually been misusing this type of labor, violating these rules, and not allow American companies to work with those entities,\u201d Hagerty said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also claimed that Tennessee was experiencing the impact of the border crisis, claiming that the administration has \u201cbeen doing its best to hide it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve been doing their best to hide it. Senator Marsha Blackburn and I have been all over this trying to get more clarity out of the Department of Homeland Security\u2014out of DHS,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have been not forthcoming on this, but they continue to move people across the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty also claimed that fentanyl deaths in Tennessee continued to rise, which he pinned in part on the large amount of the illicit drug that is smuggled over the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The] incidents of fentanyl overdoses and deaths continue to rise month after month. If that\u2019s not a surrogate, I don\u2019t know what it is, but they are killing our kids here in Tennessee,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Border Patrol agents arrested two men for attempting to smuggle over $80,000 of illicit narcotics near the El Centro sector, including fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 33-year-old male driver and 39-year-old male passenger were in possession of .68 pounds of fentanyl (approximately 3000 pills) with an estimated street value of $46,410, 4.45 pounds of heroin with an estimated street value of $36,360, 2.01 grams of methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $80.40, and 5.5 grams of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.23,\u201d Customs and Border Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/2-usc-s-arrested-attempting-smuggle-close-83k-narcotics-through\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, the Republican praised West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin for listening to his constituents when he effectively killed the passage of Build Back Better before the end of the year by saying he would not vote for the bill in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what Joe Manchin did is he listened to the voters of West Virginia who sound very much like the voters of Tennessee. They don\u2019t want this bill. They don\u2019t want more fuel poured on this inflationary fire,\u201d Hagerty said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to see the fossil fuel industry devastated. They want to see America thrive again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he did not think that Manchin would \u201cstand for\u201d far-left intimidation tactics.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty decried the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s response to the surges of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the United States, saying that the effects of the border crisis \u201care killing our kids here in Tennessee.\u201d Hagerty made the remarks during an interview on Thursday, where he discussed the future of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}