Friday, May 31, 2024

Office of U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn: The Blackburn Report

**Disclaimer: To comply with U.S. Senate Policy, the Blackburn Report will not be distributed again until August. **

Earlier this month, an illegal immigrant was charged with attempted kidnapping, sexual battery, public intoxication, and evading arrest after he followed a woman into a bathroom at an ice cream shop in Nashville and groped her. I led a letter with members of the Tennessee delegation to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers about the immigration status of 23-year-old Nelson Yovani Ortiz-Ramirez and why he was allowed to remain in the U.S. Sadly, this incident is only the latest in a series of unconscionable acts by illegal immigrants who have entered our country. If the Biden administration actually enforced our immigration laws, these heinous acts could have been prevented. I will never vote to make illegal immigration legal.