Kansas GOP Senator Roger Marshall is blaming the Biden administration’s immigration policies for his state no longer being a “border state.”
“Joe Biden has to stop sending this signal to everybody. He needs to stop making this a magnet,” Marshall told Fox News of the president’s plan to end Title 42, a pandemic era provision that allows border authorities to refuse entry to people who could pose a health risk.
“The ranchers I visited with yesterday on their ranches when President Trump was president, they would see one or two dead bodies per year. They have already found a hundred bodies on one ranch year to date right now,” Marshall continued. “This is exploding…This is a war zone. This is why this is important to Kansas. This is why Kansas is no longer a border state.”
Kansas does not share a border with Mexico. It is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, Oklahoma to the south, and Colorado to the west.
On Friday, Louisiana U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays, a Trump appointee, blocked the Biden administration from lifting the Title 42 border policy.
“The record reflects that – based on the government’s own predictions – that the Termination Order will result in an increase in daily border crossings and that this increase could be as large as a three-fold increase to 18,000 daily border crossings,” the judge wrote. “Moreover, the CDC’s own Termination Order acknowledges that the order ‘will lead to an increase in a number of non-citizens being processed in DHS facilities which could result in overcrowding in congregate settings.’”
The Department of Justice on Friday appealed Summerhays’ decision, but it is unlikely the restrictions will be lifted by Monday as planned, according to Politico.
