James Lankford: “We had Russians coming across the border that they literally…”

“This is one of the many reasons I work so much on the border security issues, because we don't know who's coming across the border at any point. The Biden administration is literally letting folks in. When I was there earlier this week, We had Russians coming across the border that they literally just checked them in and said, Russia has given us no criminal records about you, so you must be okay and let them come into the border, in fact, gave them a work permit. which, by the way, is one of the things my bill would have stopped that would have ended on that day. But, yeah, we've got to be able to actually enforce our border and enforce the immigration policies.” (06:46–06:58)

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