VIDEO: Blackburn Slams Durbin’s Hollow Call for ‘Sensible and Humane’ Immigration Policy After He Ran Cover for Biden’s Border Crisis

VIDEO: Blackburn Slams Durbin’s Hollow Call for ‘Sensible and Humane’ Immigration Policy After He Ran Cover for Biden’s Border Crisis
March 3, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.
– Today during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Kristi Noem
, U.S. Senator
Marsha Blackburn
(R-Tenn.) blasted Senator
Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.) for hypocritically calling for “sensible and humane” immigration policy after he ran cover for Joe Biden’s border crisis for four years. The National Counterterrorism Center has
identified
18,000
known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration allowed into the country.
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EXCERPTS OF REMARKS
“In [Senator Durbin’s] comments, he said there was a sensible and humane way to deal with immigration… He felt like Biden’s policy was sensible and humane.”
“This struck me because the Biden administration allowed hundreds of thousands of those illegally entering the country. We have seen hundreds of thousands of migrant children that have been lost. There is nothing sensible and humane about that.”
“There is nothing sensible and humane about having terrorists walk across our border and come into this country.”
“There is nothing sensible and humane to these wonderful families who are grieving the loss of loved ones that somebody illegally came in the country and took the life of their loved ones.”
“There is nothing sensible and humane about allowing millions of people to violate the rule of law in the United States.”
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2026/3/immigration/video-blackburn-slams-durbin-s-hollow-call-for-sensible-and-humane-immigration-policy-after-he-ran-cover-for-biden-s-border-crisis