President Donald Trump met with border patrol agents and police as he visited the US-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas. (AFP / Jim WATSON)
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) cleared up some misconceptions about border security during Donald Trump's presidency.
The Oklahoma Republican has been leading negotiations on a bipartisan Senate border agreement that House speaker Mike Johnson has promised to kill if it passes the upper chamber, and Lankford said President Joe Biden should be doing more to stop the flood of migrants crossing the border – but he said Trump's record wasn't much better.
"Obviously we want to be able to stop the chaos at the border," Lankford said. "We had the worst month ever in the history of the country in December. The response of that is changing how we handle asylum doing our catch-and-release, doing a new system where we don't have this 10-year backlog. We quickly turn people around, building more wall, adding more detention beds, doubling the deportation flights. I mean, it's a dramatic shift, and people are focused on one or two areas and saying, 'I don't like that area,' and they're ignoring all of the rest of it and literally saying I'd rather do nothing."
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"Now I have had folks that have said the president has the authority to do and he's not doing it – that is 100 percent true," Lankford added. "Biden is not using the authorities he currently has, but I would also remind folks during the Trump administration we also had days of more than 4,000 people that were illegally crossing the border under the Trump administration in 2019, and they were struggling because there's gaps and loopholes in the law."
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