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James Lankford: “The bill didn't solve everything. It didn't deal with the 10…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Published October 15, 2024 | Video Starts at 02:57

And the bill didn't solve everything. By the way, I disagree with some of the things that you listed there. They said it did, that it certainly did not do, it The bill didn't solve everything. It didn't deal with the 10 million people illegally here, but it would have forced an administration to do their job. And that was the key focus of it was how can we get them to start doing what they should have done all along? (02:57–03:12)

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Asserts that the bill would have forced the administration to enforce immigration laws.

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“The first person that crossed every single day would be arrested. We had a brand new screening process that was faster, and they would be…”
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“We had Russians coming across the border that they literally just checked them in and said, Russia has given us no criminal records about…”
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“They confessed that they were trying to become martyrs on election day to murder as many Americans as possible.”
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