Securing the border and stopping illegal immigration is the most important issue facing our nation today:
Joe Biden’s disastrous immigration policies have allowed millions of people to illegally cross our border, including criminals, cartels, and those on terrorist watch list. I am fighting to build the wall, add more border patrol agents, and stop Biden’s open border policies. I will stand with President Trump to finish the border wall and stop illegal immigration once and for all.
Instead of working with Congress to pursue comprehensive reforms, the Biden administration has effectively opened the border and forced states and cities to pick up the slack while the cartels continue to wreak havoc and profit from the trafficking of deadly drugs like fentanyl. The American people deserve better.
As Congress considers comprehensive reform of our nation’s immigration system, I am deeply concerned over proposals that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in the United States. Giving amnesty to those who have broken our nation’s immigration laws would undermine the policies that were established to regulate our borders and provide an orderly process of evaluating applications for citizenship. Such action would send a terrible message to all those who have complied with immigration laws and are still waiting approval. In addition, by rewarding those who violate United States law, we jeopardize the security and safety of our nation and greatly diminish our ability to protect our borders.
I will continue working to find the best ways to enforce our borders and set new guidelines for immigration procedures. In the past, I have cosponsored legislation to give law enforcement officers power to detain criminals who are also illegal immigrants, prohibit states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, expedite and fund the construction of a fence along our southern border, and prohibit access to Social Security by illegal immigrants. I have also worked closely with our farmers and ranchers that depend on guestworker labor to explore options to reforming this program. Idaho’s economy depends on agriculture labor, and without a legal means to solve this outdated system, we are doing our farmers a great disservice.