Sen. James Lankford Still Claims Bipartisan Border Bill Was Needed Despite Record-Low Border Encounters

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LANKFORD: "I do, actually. We had a million additional people that came into the country in 2024 that would not have been in the country if we would have passed that bill. So there’s a lot of catch-up ball right now. We also don’t know -- at the end, we had a lot of people that were coming in that were on the terror watch list, that were on the special immigrant visa list. I mean, we had a lot of these folks that are coming across. They’re here in the country now. They would not have been in the country. And even one of the families that the president called out last night, that murder happened after the bill failed. So if the bill would have passed, she could have been alive, because things would have been different at that point, because we would have forced the Biden Administration to be able to actually impose the law, because half of that bill was requiring the Biden Administration to use the legal authority they already had, and the other half was adding new authorities."