Republican House members believe there are issues with illegal immigrants coming across the southern border of Mexico.

Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District Representative Randy Feenstra calls the situation on the southern border a humanitarian crisis.

“When you have over 20,000 undocumented minors sitting at the border, and don’t have a place to go. When you starting seeing the people that are caught that are on our watch list and part of MS-13 gang, and all the drugs that are coming across, these are real, real problems, especially to our country.”

 Feenstra says one of the main starting blocks for a solution is to secure the border and know who is coming in and out of the United States. He also supports a letter that several law enforcement officials sent to the Biden Administration calling for better border security, including Greene County Sheriff Jack Williams as one of the signees. 

“That’s the pressure that’s happening is the law enforcement is taking on the brunt of this. Because what do they do with somebody that does something illegally, when you can’t hold them, you’ve got to release them. I mean, that is not how our justice system works. That’s where we’ve got to resolve this issue.”   

Feenstra is also pushing for a bill called Sarah’s Law that would close a loophole where illegal immigrants that commit serious crimes would be held in jail instead of allowing them to flee back to Mexico.