Senator Risch Leads Way on New Legislation to Tackle Border Crisis
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and fellow GOP senators introduced a bill on March 9 that includes resuming construction of the border wall to secure the nation’s southern border and stop the rising flow of illegal immigrants crossing that boundary into the United States.
“Since President [Joe] Biden took office, more than 4.7 million illegal immigrants—double the population of Idaho—have been encountered at the southern border.
“This is a direct result [of] the president’s open border policies that have catalyzed a full-blown disaster,” said Risch in a release his office released.
Joining Risch as co-sponsors of the Solving the Border Crisis Act are his fellow senator from Idaho, Mike Crapo, and senators Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Thom Tillis and Ted Budd of North Carolina, and Arkansas’s John Boozman….