'Close the border': Sen Marsha Blackburn discusses new bill addressing migrant crisis on 'Fox & Friends'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Marsha Blackburn, the Republican Senator from Tennessee, joined co-host Pete Hegseth on the January 27 episode of 'Fox & Friends' to discuss a new bill that is meant to address the crisis at the US borders.

Hegseth stated that while President Biden believes that the new bill will help him shut down the border, House Speaker Mike Johnson believes that the bill "is dead on arrival."

The actual content of the Bill remains unknown

Acknowledging the fact that she had not read the Bill in question yet, Blackburn strongly claimed, "I have been very solid in my response that I will not vote for anything that makes illegal legal."

"The Biden administration tries every day to make illegal immigration legal. This is another way," she continued. "They are saying (that) they want us to say it's okay for 5000 people to come, it's okay for us to close our borders some days of the year."

"We are the United States of America. If we want to close our border, we close our border. We should be closing our border. Joe Biden has all the authority he needs to close that border (but) he refuses to do it," she added.

Using migrants to influence the Census

The Senator stated that an open border was the immigration policy of the Biden administration, as the Democrats required people to come into the states where they are in charge as "people are fleeing Blue cities and Blue states, and moving to places like Tennessee."

"For the Census, they need to bulk up their numbers," she went on. "This is why these big city mayors are not saying, 'Close the border.' They are saying, 'Send us more money, so that we can tend to these individuals that are coming.'"

Blackburn later explained that the Census determined congressional seats and federal funding.

"You take a state like New York that lost (around) 700,000 people, California that lost like both lost congressional seats and they are going to lose more. And this is the way that they get more people in."

"It's why we are saying, you cannot be counted in the census unless you are a citizen," she concluded.