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If Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had a plan for dealing with the immigration crisis, he should have put it into play long before the situation got out of hand, Rep. Diana Harshbarger said on Newsmax on Monday. 

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “National Report,” Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) dismissed claims that the Department of Homeland Security has a plan to deal with the border after Title 42 is lifted, stating, “they have no plan.

On Monday, April 25th, Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) joined a small delegation led by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to the southern border.

Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger joined fellow GOP members of Congress on a trip to see the crisis at the southern border firsthand. 

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – United States Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border.

Harshbarger tweeted Monday morning from Texas saying the situation at the border is dangerous and expressed opposition to the Biden administration’s plans to revoke a health order addressing migrants at the border.

“I’d like to say ‘Good morning from Eagle Pass, Texas’, but there’s nothing good about what we’re witnessing here at the southern border,” Harshbarger wrote. “This crisis is DEADLY and removing Title 42 will only make it worse.”

A group of Republican House members traveled to the Texas-Mexico border and detailed the "emotional anguish" Border Patrol agents incur due to the rampant human trafficking and drug smuggling, while urging Democrats and President Biden to take action before Title 42 ends on May 23.

East Tennessee high school students in grades 9-12 can compete to have their artwork displayed at the U.S. Capitol Building.