James Lankford: “The southern border is now closed. We're not dealing with 12,000 people a day illegally crossing the border…”

“So he tried to just set something side by side and say, let's look back three or four years on it. Crime has dropped to a 90 year low for violent crime. The southern border is now closed. We're not dealing with 12,000 people a day illegally crossing the border. It's zero crossing the border. He also talked about inflation. Yes, we're at 3% inflation, but during the Biden administration it was 9% inflation. So, yes, things are too high, but it's got to come down.” (01:41–01:49)

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