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U.S. Senator Roger Marshall recently appeared on Newsmax to discuss his concerns regarding Vice President Kamala Harris' handling of the southern border. Senator Marshall attributed the lack of security at the border to Harris, whom he referred to as the "Border Czar," and expressed that her policies are endangering American citizens.

During the interview, Senator Marshall highlighted a report revealing that hundreds of U.S. Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) cameras are not functioning. He recalled an instance from April when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified under oath that he was unaware of the operational status of border technology.

In his remarks, Senator Marshall said, “We just did a telephone town hall recently with senior citizens, thousands of them on the line, and 60% of them do not feel safe in their own community…Kamala Harris owns that. We’re losing 200 to 300 Americans, young adults, every day to fentanyl poisoning, human trafficking exploding – she owns this."

He further criticized the situation with CBP's non-functional cameras: “We know that at least two million known ‘gotaways’ have come into the country under Kamala Harris… that’s a low number. That’s two million people that they’ve registered on the cameras that were working.” He added concerns about funding priorities by stating, “It’s interesting to me that they have enough money to fly in a thousand people every day on Kamala Harris’s parole program, but they don’t have enough money to fix these cameras or get new cameras.”

Senator Marshall also addressed issues related to foreign gangs like Tren de Aragua impacting American communities: “We need President Trump, don’t we? We need someone who’s committed to securing the border." He shared insights from local law enforcement officials who believe addressing border security is crucial before tackling criminal activities within communities.

Marshall described challenges specific to Kansas: “In Kansas, what we’re seeing, of course, we’re losing a Kansan every day to fentanyl poisoning; human trafficking is exploding...And as my dad, the chief of police said, ‘Wherever there’s drug trafficking, there’s going to be crime surrounding that as well.’ So it’s a horrible situation.”