MCALLEN, Texas– U.S. Senator Roger Marshall and Kansas Sheriffs Calvin Hayden (Johnson County), Brian Hill (Shawnee County), Roger Soldan (Saline County), Jeff Richards (Franklin County), and Tim Morse (Jackson County) toured the southern border last weekend for briefings, tours, and meetings with border patrol officials, within DHS and the state of Texas.
The trip came amid the growing fentanyl crisis that is wreaking havoc in Kansas and across the nation. Following the trip, Marshall wrote, “After visiting the southern border with Sheriffs Hayden, Hill, Soldan, Richards, and Morse, it’s clear that what is going on is a human tragedy in every sense of the word.
At nighttime, it even looks like a war zone and there is a humanitarian crisis here that is lived out every day.
“Border patrol officers are simply overwhelmed and this is an unsustainable situation. President Biden needs to get down to the southern border and see this crisis for himself. He needs to spend time on the Rio Grande River helping save migrants who have traveled thousands of miles. He needs to go up the interstate and pick up people who have been traveling for two or three days without water.
He needs to go talk the farmers and ranchers who are finding dead bodies on their property almost every day. And he need to meet face to face with Border Patrol officials who are doing everything in their power to stop the drug cartels and the flow of fentanyl from the border to Kansas.”