WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty issued the following press release:
Yesterday, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) spoke on the Senate floor imploring his Senate colleagues to secure funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Boder Patrol (CBP) during budget reconciliation, which had been shut down since January.
Remarks as prepared for delivery:
"We have gone 110 days with border patrol and ICE being defunded by the Democrats. The question I ask is: what do they want? They want to see more deaths. In 2025 alone, in my home state, 41 Tennesseans died at the hands of illegal immigrants... I took a call from a father whose son didn't wake up on Thanksgiving morning because he got Fentanyl into his...