Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined 10 other Republican attorneys general at the Southern Border on Wednesday to communicate the early, indisputable successes of President Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda and the new role state leaders are playing.
Standing near Mile Marker 12 7/8 in Yuma, Arizona — the symbolic end of the Trump border wall — Marshall and his counterparts from the Republican Attorney Generals Association (RAGA) celebrated the hard-fought reversal of Biden-era immigration policies and the restoration of immigration enforcement powers under the Trump administration.
“I want to say a special word of thanks to those brave men and women of our federal immigration enforcement. They’ve given us a wonderful briefing today. What we see is the shackles are off — and allowing them to be able to do their job — to be able to keep our borders secure,” Marshall said today.
“Alabama is not a border state — but we’re impacted by an insecure border. We’ve seen it from the loss of life of fentanyl. We’ve seen it by the increased risk of violent crime on our streets, and President Trump entered into his term less than four months ago with a promise to be able to secure the border and secure our communities across America. And we’ve seen that happen.”
Marshall credited the sharp drop in illegal border crossings and “got-aways” to Trump’s leadership — not to any change in law.
“There has been an impact, not because we’ve changed the law, but we changed the leader,” Marshall said. “And we’ve enabled immigration enforcement to do their jobs and to be able to do it effectively.”
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The briefing included AGs from Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah. Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen and Yavapai County Sheriff David Rhodes also participated.
Over the past four years as Alabama AG, Marshall was a tireless litigator against the Biden administration in support of the effort to preserve Trump-era asylum standards.
“My colleagues and I have been that last line of defense against the Biden administration immigration policy for the last four years,” Marshall said.
“One of the areas for Alabama, which we were able to lead, is trying to preserve the common sense rules of the Trump administration relating to those claiming asylum.”
Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.
