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James Lankford: “This number of 14% of the folks have a criminal record that…”

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

Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement

Published February 12, 2026 | Video Starts at 00:49

So there is some news that's happening. I also want to be able to correct the record on a couple of things I've heard just even in conversation today. This number of 14% of the folks have a criminal record that ICE has detained is actually not an accurate number. That number is 14% of violent criminals. That's murders and rapes. 70% of the folks that are arrested nationwide have a criminal record. (00:49–00:58)

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“That number is 14% of violent criminals. That's murders and rapes.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 00:57-01:03
“Every time I was working with the Biden administration and trying to find a solution with 12,000 people a day that were illegally crossing…”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 01:55-02:04
“We had 70,000 people that even the Biden administration identified as special interest aliens coming from areas of known terrorism.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 02:09-02:18
“Tom Holman has announced that they are standing down Operation Metro Surge.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 00:10-00:15
“They have had 4,000 total arrests of folks that are undocumented in Operation Metro Surge.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 00:15-00:27
“I've identified over 3,300 children. There were unaccompanied minors that we didn't know their whereabouts.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 00:23-00:32
“70% of the folks that are arrested nationwide have a criminal record.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 01:03-01:08
“There are right now about 1200 jurisdictions in the country that have a 287 agreement with the federal government.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 02:47-02:56
“There's 1400 total agreements of some kind of memorandum understanding with ICE and with local law enforcement across the country.”
Lankford Highlights Minnesota's Refusal to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 02:58-03:08