WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn issued the following news release:

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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"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 str...