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On the recordFebruary 12, 2025
I find it so interesting how people are watching so closely to see what this administration does, and I have been so pleased to see that the polling shows, by an overwhelming amount, 70 percent of the American people agree with how President Donald Trump is carrying out his job, getting things done for the American people, things that they voted to see done, and he is keeping those promises. Now, when we look at the issue of illegal immigration, we see that in his first weeks back in office, what he has done at the top of his to- do list has been to take action to secure this border. The numbers that we are seeing, how they have dropped with the number of encounters, with the number of ``got-aways,'' this is encouraging. The message is out there. The United States is going to protect and defend its sovereignty. We are going to protect and defend our people. That is important, and we are seeing it. Now, the President has taken some Executive actions that have yielded results. By Executive order, he restored the ``Remain in Mexico'' policy. He restarted the border wall construction--which, by the way, this is something the Border Patrol has told us not for just a few years, but for decades: We need a border wall. That is where the phrase ``build the wall'' came from; it came from people that are down there every day protecting this country from harm. The President has also ended catch-and-release.…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee
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Feb 12, 2025

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