Sen. Steve Daines: Cartels Taunted Us With Language “So Vile We Don’t Want To Repeat It”

On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) describes his interactions with members of drug cartels and those illegally crossing the border during a visit with Ted Cruz and other Republican members of the Senate to the banks of the Rio Grande.

“We get to the border on the Rio Grande banks there, we’re looking across the river and it’s maybe one hundred yards, seventy five yards wide. It was dark. We have flashlights with us and we could hear cartel members on the other side yelling back at us. They were taunting us. Now, they didn’t realize that there were eighteen Republican senators there. They just thought it was probably Border Patrol because they could hear the English, because it projects pretty well across open water like that. And they were yelling things that were so vile that the Border Patrol translated, because they all speak Spanish, our wonderful men and women in Border Patrol, trying to do their jobs. We said, what are they saying? They said, well, they’re taunting us right now. So what are they also saying? So it’s so vile, we don’t even want to repeat it.”

“There’s human trafficking, there’s drugs, and the cartels are making out and they’re bringing them across the border. There are COVID superspreader events going on down there. And there’s a reason why we had a Biden handler. There is this woman who came up and confronted us who are trying to take pictures, take videos of what’s going on. And you might have seen there’s a video that’s gone viral now of Ted Cruz. And she wanted to stop it, she said you need to delete these videos, you can make these videos. Wait a minute, the American people know what’s going on down here. It reminded me of being on a trip if you go to China, to Russia, where you have government handlers that restrict what you can see and can’t see, what you can film when you can’t film, that’s what it felt like down the border here on Friday.”