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James Lankford: “They want to literally change the policies for ICE so ICE…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:27

They've cut off funding to all of those and saying they don't want to be able to fund any of that. Well, that's a problem obviously. And on the ICE side of things, They want to literally change the policies for ICE so ICE agents can't arrest anyone across the country in most situations. We're not going to do that. We're not going to turn the country into a sanctuary country. We want ICE to still have the authority to be able to arrest people that are criminal aliens. (02:27–02:36)

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Asserts that Democratic colleagues want to change ICE policies to limit arrests.

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