James Lankford: “Their long term goal is, is to be able to turn on all the…”

“Now this is a Democrat shutdown because they are more worried about ICE than they are about Iran. And they're just obsessed with trying to be able to defund ICE and to be able to shut down Border Patrol. Their long term goal is, is to be able to turn on all the rest of DHS operations and never fund ICE and Border Patrol. so that those agents don't get paid, they quit and then they win at that point to say, look, we defunded ice, we now have our open borders, we now have lax enforcement.” (02:18–02:27)

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