Marsha Blackburn Quotes
Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.
Blackburn, Marsha. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office, 2006.
Reagan was the first President to admit that America was not in control of its own borders.
One of his practices was to organize groups of listeners who would come periodically to Washington to lobby for their current national crisis.
He was referring to the proposal to erect a fence between Mexico and the United States to stop illegal immigration.
Not all segments of the Republican Party perceived that they needed immigration reform. Some greatly feared more non-whites coming into the country and ending the traditional majority of whites. After the 1964 Civil Rights Bill was passed, almost all the racist Democrats of the “solid South” switched to the Republican Party and the last thing they want is to allow the 11 million mostly Hispanic and/or Black undocumented immigrants to become citizens and vote.
He was furious at Donald Trump's campain promise to build a very hiogh wall alont the entire border between the U. S. and Mexico. But what galled most Mexicans more than anything else was that Trump promised that he would force the Mexican's to pay for the wall.
Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States Senator from Tennessee. A member of the Republican Party, Blackburn served in the U.S. House for Tennessee's 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2019, and as a state senator from 1999 to 2003. On November 6, 2018, she became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, defeating former Democratic Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen. Blackburn became the state's senior senator in January 2021 when Lamar Alexander retired from the Senate. She is the most junior Republican who is the senior senator from their state. Blackburn was a supporter of the Tea Party movement, and has been described as staunchly conservative.
